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- ↑ Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936
- ↑ Ancestry – William Guthrie Gardiner
- ↑ The wreck of the "Morven" [usurped]
- ↑ The History & Constitution of the University of Glasgow
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