ref1 = "1&nbsp;<b>Death notice - Simpson, William - 21 Nov 1863</b><br><em>Father: William Simpson</em>"
ref2 = "2&nbsp;<b>Simpson Family Collected Information</b>, Ethel Ada Simpson (compiler), collected together from various, unnamed sources, before 1953.,  Andrew McMurray"
ref3 = "3&nbsp;<b>Simpson Family Collected Information</b>, Ethel Ada Simpson (compiler), collected together from various, unnamed sources, before 1953.,  Andrew McMurray"
ref4 = "4&nbsp;<b>Church Registers - St. Pancras Old Church, London - LDS extraction C047933/4</b><br><em>John Collins SIMPSON, Christening: 25 Dec 1840, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London,<br>Parents: William SIMPSON and Helen</em><br><br><b>Death notice - Simpson, William - 21 Nov 1863</b><br><em>signed by Helen Simpson, relationship unstated</em>"
ref5 = "5&nbsp;<b>Simpson Family Collected Information</b>, Ethel Ada Simpson (compiler), collected together from various, unnamed sources, before 1953.,  Andrew McMurray<br><em>Simpson Agnes (d.1902)</em>"
ref6 = "6&nbsp;<b>Census of England and Wales - 1841</b><br>HO 107/682/7<br><em>Marylebone, St Pancras, 110 Guildford Street<br>Wm Simpson, 30, surgeon, born Ireland<br>Helllen Simpson, aged 30, born Ireland <br>Agnes Simpson aged [20], born Ireland <br>Wm Simpson, aged 6, born in county<br>John Simpson, aged 6 months, born in coutny</em>"
ref7 = "7&nbsp;<b>Simpson Family Collected Information</b>, Ethel Ada Simpson (compiler), collected together from various, unnamed sources, before 1953.,  Andrew McMurray<br><em>Simpson Agnes (d.1902)</em>"
ref8 = "8&nbsp;<b>Simpson Family Collected Information</b>, Ethel Ada Simpson (compiler), collected together from various, unnamed sources, before 1953.,  Andrew McMurray<br><em>Simpson Elizabeth</em>"
ref9 = "9&nbsp;<b>Memorial Inscription - Plymouth Cemetary</b><br><em>Sacred to the memory<br>of <br>John Simpson, surgeon R.N., one of the <br>surgeons of Haslar Hospital and Gosport, <br>youngest son of the late William Simpson <br>of Larne, County Antrim, N. Ireland.<br> <br>The deceased spent five years in the Arctic <br>Regions, serving in H.M.S. Plover in the <br>search for Sir John Franklin.<br> <br>He died at Haslar Hospital on 29 August 1859 <br>Aged 39</em><br><br><b>Letter from Williams Simpson to Colonial Secretary - 1858</b>, Simpson, William, 1858,  Cape Archives, CO 4105, S129<br><em>My brother is only 38 years of age - was my pupil - was in the first China war for which he received a medal - on his return from the North Sea was appointed surgeon-superintendant of The Royal Naval Hospital at Malta - served [thus] during the whole of the late war in the Crimea, and is now surgeon superintendant of Haslar Hosptial Portsmouth.</em>"
ref10 = "10&nbsp;<b>Memorial Inscription - Plymouth Cemetary</b><br><em>Sacred to the memory<br>of <br>John Simpson, surgeon R.N., one of the <br>surgeons of Haslar Hospital and Gosport, <br>youngest son of the late William Simpson <br>of Larne, County Antrim, N. Ireland.<br> <br>The deceased spent five years in the Arctic <br>Regions, serving in H.M.S. Plover in the <br>search for Sir John Franklin.<br> <br>He died at Haslar Hospital on 29 August 1859 <br>Aged 39</em>"

