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Bibliography of
Townshend Sources

This page is intended to serve as authentication
as well as a starting point for doing one's own research.
Abbreviated references have not been added to any Documents yet.
Thanks again to Robert O'Connor for all his contributions
BDM
Civil Registration of Births Deaths & Marriages.
Blomefield
Blomefield, Francis, 'An essay towards a topographical history of the County of Norfolk', 2ed., 1805-1810 (11 vols).
Burke's EP
Burke's Peerage Limited, 'Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages', London, 1883.
Burke's P, 1970
Burke's Peerage Limited, 'Burke's Peerage & Baronetage', London, 1970
Copinger
Copinger, Walter Arthur, 'The Manors of Suffolk', 4 Vols, 1905-1909.
CP
Cokayne, G.E., 'The Complete Peerage of England', 2nd ed., London, 1910-59.
CSP
'Calender of State Papers, Domestic Series', Great Britain Record Office, Domestic Series
DFUSA
Burke's Peerage Limited, 'Distinguished Families of the USA', 1947
DNB
Dictionary of National Biography, London, 1898
Durham
Durham, James, 'The Townshends of Raynham', 1922.
EB
Encyclopædia Brittanica, 1963 edition.
Ellis
Ellis, Mabel, Bournemouth, England - unpublished research & materials collated in 1960s for Townshend family reunion held at Christchurch, New Zealand in 1969.
Faris
Faris, David, 'Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists', Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, 1st ed., 1996
FG
'Fragmenta Genealogica'.
Foss
Foss, Edward, 'Judges of England', London, 1870
HoP 1509-1558
Bindoff, S.T., 'History of Parliament, The House of Commons 1509-1558, Secker & Warburg, London, 1982.
HoP 1558-1603
Hasler P.W., 'History of Parliament, The House of Commons 1558-1603', London, 1981
HSP Ches
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Cheshire, 1580.'
HSP Norf
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Norfolk, 1552'
HSP Norf 1613
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Norfolk, 1563, 1589 & 1613.'
HSP Norf 1664
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Norfolk, 1664.'
HSP Shrops
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Shropshire, 1623.'
HSP Suffolk 1561
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Suffolk, 1561.'
HSP Worc 1569
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Worcestershire, 1569.'
HSP Worc 1634
Harliean Society Publications, 'Visitation of Worcestershire, 1634.'
Moreton
Moreton, C.E., 'The Townshends & their world: Gentry, Law & Land in Norfolk', Oxford, 1992
Paget
Paget, Gerald, 'The Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles of Wales', Charles Skilton Limited, Edinburgh, 1977
Rich
Rich, Prof. Townsend - Unpublished Research & Materials. Address 209 St. Ronan St., New Haven, Conn 06511, U.S.A. First correspondence, March 1985.
Richmond
Richmond, Colin, 'John Hopton, A Fifteenth Century Country Gentleman', Cambridge, 1981
Wedgwood
Wedgwood, J.C., 'History of Parliament Biographies, 1439-1509.'
Wyndham
Wyndham, Hon. H.A., 'A Family History 1410-1688, The Wyndhams of Norfolk & Somerset, Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1939