11 1841 Census for England and Wales.
12 Morning Post, 19 January 1842.
13 Morning Post, 22 February 1842.
14 Mrs Abell, series of articles, ‘Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon’, New Monthly Magazine, 1843.
15 Mrs Abell, Recollections, Appendix listing subscribers.
16 A.J.P. Taylor, ‘His Uncle’s Nephew’, The New York Review of Books, Vol. 27, No. 14, 25 September 1980.
17 Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, 28 November 1848. The original notice wrote of ‘Broncroft Castle, Salop’ and has been changed to ‘Shropshire’ for the general reader.
18 Mrs Abell, Recollections, Appendix to the 3rd [4th] edition by Mrs Charles Johnstone, 128.
19 Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle, 19 October 1861.
20 Story told by two Thomas T. Balcombe descendants to The Briars, Mt Martha.
21 Mrs Betsy Abell to Emma Balcombe at The Briars, Mt Martha, 10 June 1869 (Balcombe family letters courtesy of the late Richard a’Beckett and his family).
22 Mrs Abell, Recollections, Appendix to the 3rd [4th] edition by Mrs Charles Johnstone, 322–4.
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