Pilfold is known to have been baptised on 20 January 1769, and was probably born shortly before; Hawkins, Desmond (2004). "Pilfold, John (bap. 1769, d. 1834)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22265.
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