Reference Books
Biographical & Reference Works
Dictionary of National Biography — William Holt (Jesuit), pp. 208–209.
Concise Dictionary of National Biography, Part 1 (to 1900), pp. 634–635.
Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography, Vol. 1, 1892.
Who Was Who, Vols. 1–5 (1897–1960), Adam & Charles Black, London.
Joseph Hayden & Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities, 3rd ed., 1894.
W. M. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, 1906.
Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Magnus Magnusson, p. 727.
Collier’s Encyclopaedia, Vol. 4, p. 156.
Joseph Gillow, A Literary and Biographical History of English Catholics, Vol. III.
The Life of the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice, 1764.
Local History, Directories & Gazetteers
Henry Fishwick, The History of the Parish of Rochdale, 1889.
Edward Baines, History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, 1868 (CD).
J. Corry, The History of Lancashire, 1825, Vols. I & II.
The Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster, Routledge, 1854.
Ernest Gaskell, Lancashire Leaders: Social and Political, c. 1907.
John Street, The Story of Littleborough.
Rev. G. R. Oakley, In Olden Days: Lancashire Legends.
Tom Smith & Jonathan Short, History of Ribchester, 1890.
W. A. Abram, History of Blackburn, 1877.
Robert D. Mattley, Annals of Rochdale, 1898.
Memorials of Bygone Manchester.
G. J. Holyoake, The History of the Rochdale Pioneers, 1900.
William Robertson, Rochdale: Past and Present, 1875.
William Robertson, Old and New Rochdale and its People, 1881.
William Robertson, Social and Political History of Rochdale, 1889.
William Robertson, Rochdale and the Vale of Whitworth, 1897.
William Robertson, The History of Progress in Rochdale, 1913.
Directories (CD‑ROMs)
Slater’s Directory, Lancashire, 1855 (CD).
Trade Directory of Principal Cities & London Bankers, 1822 (CD).
Baines Directory, 1824/25 (CD).
Pigot’s Directory, Lancashire, 1828/29 (CD).
Aikin, Forty Miles Around Manchester, 1795 (CD).
Return of Owners of Land, Lancashire, 1873 (CD).
Lewis’s Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1788 (CD).
Manchester Directories: 1834, 1836, 1832, 1830, 1804.
General History & Thematic Works
Jennifer Westwood, A Guide to Legendary Britain, 1985, pp. 261–263.
Joseph Aston, A Picture of Manchester, 1816.
The World Book of Holts, Burke’s Peerage, 1988.
Emily Sarah Holt — evangelical novel by R. Cecil.
David Ogg, England in the Reigns of James II and William III, 1984.
J. R. Weston, Monarchy and Revolution: The English State in the 1680s, 1972.
Christopher Hill, The Century of Revolution 1603–1714, 1969.
C. P. Hill, Who’s Who in Stuart Britain, 1988.
Sir Anthony Wagner, Heralds of England, 1967.
Bernard Basset, S.J., The English Jesuits from Campion to Martindale.
J. J. Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English People.
Web Sources
Blue Funnel Line — brief history (web).
“Our Men of the Blue Funnel Line,” www.cartar.com.
Blue Funnel to China — Merseyside Maritime Museum (web).
High Sheriffs of Lancashire 1129–1947 (web).
Archival Material
Holt Family Deeds Index for coal mines in Castleton, Butterworth & Walsden,
1584–1889 (DDX409), Lancashire Records Office.
Greater Manchester County Record Office — E22 Holt family of Manchester boxes.
John Owen, The Owens Manuscript:
Vol. 10, p. 42; Vol. 12, pp. 1–41; Vol. 45, p. 252; Vol. 79, pp. 567, 585.
“Mersey” Magazine of the Mersey Dock Board Staffs Guild, Vol. IV — The Holt Family,
pp. 83–85.
Holt Name
Richard McKinley, English Surname Series IV: The Surnames of Lancashire,
1981 — Topographical surnames, pp. 188–190, 195, 207;
Surnames in Salford Hundred after 1500, pp. 405–407, 409, 444, 447.
Holt town names — registration districts, grid references, population (1981),
pp. 363–364.
Homes of Family Names: Lancashire, pp. 234–249.
An Anglo‑Saxon Dictionary, based on the manuscript collection of
Joseph Bosworth, D.D., F.R.S., p. 551.
The Holt Family History and Genealogy Page (web) — holt.org.
L. G. Pine, A Dictionary of Mottoes.
C. N. Elvin, Elvin’s Handbook of Mottoes.
