Given below are a list of the main links to sites where I did my background research and investigations. They are in no particular order, but my grateful thanks to all of these organisations for sharing their work and allowing research to be carried out.
Links to the main research sites:
- National Library of Scotland – https://www.nls.uk/
- National Library of Scotland Maps – https://maps.nls.uk/
- Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org
- Internet Archive – www.archive .org
- Newspapers – www.newspapers.com
- Canmore – www.canmore.org.uk
- British History Online – https://www.british-history.ac.uk
- The Douglas Archives – http://www.douglashistory.co.uk
- The Greenock Telegraph – https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk
- Gazetteer for Scotland – https://www.scottish-places.info
- Electric Scotland – https://www.electricscotland.com
- The Urban Historian – https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com
- JSTOR – https://www.jstor.org
- University of Edinburgh – http://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk
- Tudor Times – https://tudortimes.co.uk
- Wikiwand – https://www.wikiwand.com
- Randon Scottish History – https://randomscottishhistory.com
- British Folklore – http://britishfolklore.com/kempock-stone
- Robert M. La Follette – https://lafollette.wisc.edu/