Endnotes
1. Census of Victoria, 1857: population tables, Registrar-General's Office, Melbourne, 1857.
2. Rolls for the electoral districts of Colac and of Polworth [sic] and South Grenville, and for the divisions of Colac and of Polworth and South Grenville in the South-Western Province, all current from 21 July 1856 to 30 June 1857, both days inclusive.
3. Pioneer Index, Victoria 1836-1888.
4. Index to Assisted British immigration 1839-1871 (online index to Registers of Assisted British Immigrants 1839-1871), PROV, c. 2003- ; Immigration: index to assisted immigrants arriving Port Phillip, 1839-51, Archives Authority of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976; British immigration to Victoria: resource kit [microform] Stage 1, Assisted immigrants from U.K., 1839-1871, PROV, Laverton, 1988.
5. Immigration to Victoria 1852-1879: Index to Inward [unassisted] Passenger Lists, British and Foreign Ports, PROV, 2003- (viewed online as it became available).
6. PROV, VPRS 944/P0 Inward Passenger Lists (Australian Ports), Units 10, 11 and 12; Papers of the Geelong and Portland Bay Immigration Society, held at State Library of Victoria, MS 12232.
7. PROV, VA 2889 Registrar-General's Department, VPRS 24/P0 Inquest Deposition Files.
8. I Hebb, The history of Colac and district, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1970, reprinted from serial publication in the Colac Herald, 1888.
9. Returns on a Circular on Aborigines, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, (Legislative Council) 1858-59, p. 634 and following.
10. PROV, VPRS 24/P0, Unit 47, Item 1857/1020, James Long.
11. PROV, VPRS 24/P0, Unit 47, Item 1857/991, George Keppell.
12. Deaths in the District of Polwarth, 1857, Death Certificates, Victoria, Nos. 3350, 3351, 3352, 3353, 3354.
13. L Johnson, An Australian family, vol. 2, Who run beyond the seas, Rock View Press, Camberwell, 1994.
14. Family recollections of her great-grand-daughter.
15. PROV, VA 703 Denominational School Board, VPRS 61/P0 Inward Registered Correspondence, Unit 11, File 57/456, list of subscribers towards the erection of a Catholic Denominational Schoolhouse at Colac.
16. PROV, VA 919 National School Board, VPRS 880/P0 Inwards Registered Correspondence, Unit 11, Colac, Item 57/774, Report of School Inspector Glen.
17. PROV, VA 703 Denominational School Board, VPRS 885/P0 Inspectors' Reports, Unit 2, Item 57/645, Report of School Inspector James Bonwick.
18. PROV, VPRS 1005/P0 Outward Letter Book (Police Department Geelong), Unit 2, 6 August 1857.
19. PROV, VPRS 24/P0, Unit 54, Item 1858/493, John Pink; Unit 44, Item 1857/651, William Wray.