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- The Poole's of Mayfield by Rosemary ffolliot.
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- Burke's Irish Family Records. 1976 edition.
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- Irish Census April 1911
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- London Gazette from 1665 to the present day
- Munster Volunteer Registry, 1782 © Jane Lyons
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- Supplemental Addenda to Unpublished Kerry Records.
- Succession Lists of the Diocese of Dromore by Henry Swanzy.
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- RBT Papers. Letters to Richard Baxter Townsend [5D15] and his wife Dorothea from members of the family after the publication of An Officer of the Long Parliament.
- Lovera Papers. Family documents, letters and papers dating from 1790 that belonged to Contessa Sylvia Lovera di Maria, daughter of Sylvia Rosalie Gorges (nee Townsend) [268], and inherited from her on her death in 1982 by Robert Knox, grandson of Zeenie Townsend [556]. Now deposited in Gloucester Record Office.
- Derry Papers Family documents, letters and papers dating from 1687 relating to the Derry branch of the family by kind permission of Maurice Philip Townshend [5D65]. Now deposited in Gloucester Record Office.
- Llanvapley Papers Townsend family correspondence dating from 1816, by kind permission of Michael Skinner, grandson of Edward Mansel Townshend [630] through Sybil Gertrude Townshend [684]. Now deposited in Gloucester Record Office.
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- All almanacs and directories between 1824 and 1913.
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- Navy and Army Lists.
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- Inspired Golf by Richard Baxter Townsend. Transcribed & edited by Kevin Allen. (Copies available from Kevin Allen, 2 Milford Court, Gale Moor Avenue, Gosport, Hants PO12 2TN).
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- Articles and cuttings from newspapers and journals.
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