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- ↑ Society of Genealogists, Family History, The Vulliamy Family, Shelf mark FH/VUL
- ↑ London trade directories 1784-1798; Sun Fire Office 1793.
- ↑ William Proudfoot, Biographical Memoir of James Dinwiddie: Embracing Some Account of His Travels in China and Residence in India (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1868), 45.
