1. The letters of Rachel Henning,1985
2. ARNSW: NRS 5316, 4/4786, Persons on bounty ships (agent’s immigrant lists), 1836–1896.
3. ARNSW: NRS 5317, 4/4914. Persons on board ships to Sydney. Newcastle, Moreton Bay, 1848–1891.
4. ARNSW: NRS 905, 49/4826 [4/2850]. Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence, dated 19 May 1849. This document contains a ‘Copy of Sick List – Steadfast Voyage 21 October 1848 – 26 March 1849’, which lists the dates of all the women who delivered aboard the Steadfast.
5. Australian Medical Pioneer Index. ‘John Henry Read’, Retrieved from http://www.medicalpioneers.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?detail=1&id=2726.