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- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, Volume 4. Oxford University Press. pp. 2397–8. ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
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