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This site is divided into two. This part (the information/contact site) is concerned with discussions, links, contacts, etc. plus general issues.  The other part (the main tree site - www.whobegatwhom.co.uk) contains all the information about individuals, trees, reports,etc.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Articles on Patrick Copland, Ezekiel Hopkins, Charles Hopkins, John Hopkins, Alexander Murray, Gideon Murray, Alexander Burnet, John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquair

Crockford’s Clerical Directory (various years):

Articles on various clergymen

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

Information on the Venerable Robert James French

The Five Sons of Bare Betty. Col. Hon. Arthur C. Murray.  John Murray 1936. 

Detailed information on Alexander 4th Earl Elibank and his five distinguished sons and their careers.

Memorials of Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank and his Times (1560-1621). Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Arthur C. Murray, CMG, DSO.  John Orr 1932.

Biography of the great man.

Life of General the Hon. James Murray, a Builder of Canada, with a biographical sketch of the family of Murray of Elibank by his descendant, Major-Gen. RH Mahon, CB, CSI.  John Murray 1921.

Biography of the first Governor of Canada

Railroad History No. 178, Spring 1998. “A Wild Ride on Badnall’s Undulating Railway” - Joseph C Meredith

Background to Richard Badnall Junior’s most in/famous project of all

The Shepherd Lord of Skipton Castle - Henry Clifford, 10th Lord Clifford, 1454-1523. Richard T Spence. Skipton Castle 1994

Skipton Castle and its Builders. Richard T Spence.  Skipton Castle 2002

Skipton Castle in the Great Civil War 1642-1645. Richard T Spence.  Skipton Castle 1991

Three books dealing with the history of the Clifford family, and in particular with their links with Skipton Castle

Hurlocks of London: 17th to 20th Centuries.  Dorothy Burch.  Privately printed, Leicester, 1995

As described in the title, and including some trees and short biographical sketches

The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins (Bishop of Derry), 1633-1689. Edited by Rev. Charles W Quick. Including a memoir of the Author, and Expositions of the Lord’s Prayer and the Decalogue.  Soli Deo Gloria Publications

A massive work in three volumes. Apparently the original edition is a better one to have as this modern one has been soemwhat “edited” for “theological reasons”.  The biographical material is also not entirely accurate.

Maritime Masters and Seafaring Slaves in Bermuda, 1680-1783. Michael Jarvis.  William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Volume LIX, Number 3, July 2002

Interesting background material on life in Bermuda during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Biography of a Colonial Town.  Kennedy. 

Background to Samuel Saltus Ingham Senior, and also to life in Bermuda in general during the period

Zuill. Bermuda Sampler.

Contains the full text of Samuel Saltus Ingham’s speech in the House of Assembly in 1836

Peerage of Scotland

Information on Murrays of Elibank and Stewarts of Traquair

Burke’s Peerage

Information on Murrays of Elibank and Stewarts of Traquair

A History of the 66th Regiment.

Contains a detailed account of the Passage of the Douro (in Portugal), in which James Patrick Murray played an important part, and in which he lost the use of his arm.

Records of the Worcestershire Regiment

Details of the career of Captain Pulteney Murray

Dictionary of Canadian Biography: article on James Murray. GP Browne.

• Alumni Oxoniensis.
• Bishops of Derry and Raphoe. Ulster Historical Foundation 1999
• Parish Registers for Pinhoe, Sandford, Exeter St. Mary Arches,
• Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries
• Records for Merchant Tailors’ School

These and various other sources (often contradictory) were used for information on the life and work of Bishop Ezekiel Hopkins

British History Online; trade and industry; silk; the 17th and 18th centuries.

A background to the silk trade in Leek, with much information about the Badnall family, and the vital role they played in its development

The Proposed Changes in the Law of Marriage considered in Two Sermons preached in St. Paul’s Church, Rondebosch.... by H. Badnall DD, Archdeacon of the Cape, and Rector of S. Paul’s, Rondebosch. W. Foster & Co., Cape Town 1872

Burke’s Landed Gentry

A genealogy of Wilson of Cliffe Hall

Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers Vol. 26, 1945-6.

Obituary of Maurice Fitzgerald Wilson

Other volumes of the above journal containing articles by Maurice Fitzgerald Wilson on his work, for example on Dover Harbour.