Sources


  1. William Barff, GEDCOM file imported on 26 Dec 1999, received by e-mail.
  2. GEDCOM file submitted by Thomas Barff 1712 RootsMagic dataset. Created on 29 JAN 2009. Imported on 29 Jan 2009.
  3. Typescript extract from North Newbald Registers, Photo copy received by E-mail on December 27, 1999 from William Barff, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire., Record merely lists "bapt." and the year.
  4. FamilySearch Data Administrator.
  5. New Family Search.org.
  6. GEDCOM file imported on 13 Sep 1998.
  7. International Genealogical Index (IGI): 8/93 edition, Batch #: C061232, Source Call #: 207567.
  8. International Genealogical Index (IGI): 8/93 edition, Batch #: P007331, Source Call #: 844559.
  9. International Genealogical Index (IGI): 8/93 edition, Batch #: P004981, Source Call #: 098541.
  10. International Genealogical Index (IGI): 8/93 edition. Batch #: P007331, Source Call #: 844559

    Batch #: M004982, Source Call #: 990778.

  11. Handwritten letter, dated March 11, 1995 and filed as BFB98-0901 consisting of a descent in dropline chart form from William Barff.
  12. International Genealogical Index (IGI): 8/93 edition, Batch #: C004982, Source Call #: 990778.
  13. 1881 British Census
    Family History Resource File
    Compact Disc Edition © 1999 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
    This CD-ROM contains Census data which are © British Crown copyright and reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. (Census Data © British Crown copyright 1999. Published by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. No responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of the data contained herein is implied or accepted by the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.). There is only one Samuel Barff listed in this census, and his birth year is given as 1828, his birth place asKnaresbro, York, England. His occupation is listed as Labourer (Genl), as is his son John, age 15. His other son, Charles H. is listed as age 13, and "Scholar".
  14. Barbara Fernandes Birley, the aunt of the compiler of this work., Handwritten letter, dated March 11, 1995 and filed as BFB95-0301, Received September, 1998.
  15. entry, International Genealogical Index [IGI] (Salt Lake City: Family History Library), C071651.
  16. International Genealogical Index (IGI): 8/93 edition, Batch #: C117931, Source Call #: SEE REG 941 V2.
  17. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) (Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of February 3, 2008).
  18. Extracted birth and/or christening record for: Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland, Batch #: C117931, Source Call #: 6035516 REGISTER.
  19. Imported GEDCOM file (Ancestral File, 1996 edition).
  20. Patrick Casey, "Edward James Barff," e-mail message from <p.casey@coda-architects.co.uk> (Clifton Rugby Club) to dave@birley.org, 9/30/2008.
  21. International Genealogical Index (IGI): 8/93 edition. Batch #: 8700067, Sheet #: 07, Source Call #:

    Batch #: A537947, Source Call #: 537947,537975,53798.

  22. Form submitted by LDS Church member. Batch #: 8700067, Sheet #: 07, Source Call #: 1553791.
  23. Phone call. With Barbara Birley while she was in Denber, Sept 14, 1998.
  24. Cicely Beatrice Birley (Aunt Bee), Pedigree of Birley of Lancashire (Manchester; privately published in looseleaf form), p.31a.
  25. Living information.
  26. L. G. Pine, Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th Edition, 1952 (LONDON: Burkes, 1952), page 187.
  27. Cicely Beatrice Birley (Aunt Bee), Pedigree of Birley of Lancashire, pp 30, 31a.
  28. L. G. Pine, Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th Edition, 1952, page 187: Educ. Clifton and Winchester.
  29. Pedigree of Birley, of Lancashire, framed and hanging on the wall in the pub at the Birley Arms, Wharton, Lancashire. Aparently this was part of a book as there are references to other families, such as Hornby: "See that family". (Unknown, but after 1873.).
  30. GEDCOM file submitted by Marjorie Birley, birley@mts.net. Created on 13 MAY 2007. Imported on 14 May 2007.
  31. 1881 British Census
    Family History Resource File
    Compact Disc Edition © 1999 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
    This CD-ROM contains Census data which are © British Crown copyright and reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. FHL Film 1341859
    PRO Ref RG11
    Piece 3589
    Folio 108
    Page 5.