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Reference Note 1
GRO Marriage Certificate: Bermondsey           
30 Mar 1852 St Mary Magdalen    Interior view       Exterior view
John Fleming/ 28/Bach/Lighterman/East Lane/George Fleming/Lighterman
Catherine Johnson/19/Spin /East Lane/William Johnson/Wine cooper
By Licence
Witnesses: George Fleming & Honor Maria Lucey 

Reference Note 2
Parish Register of St Mary-at-Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Reference Note 4
Shipboard diary of Arthur Waghorn - held by Canterbury Museum Library, Christchurch, NZ.

Reference Note 5
Shipboard diary of Richard John Philip Fleming - held by the Canterbury Museum Library, Christchurch, NZ.

Reference Note 6
GRO Marriage Certificate: Lambeth 1d/558
15 Sep 1859 St Mary, Lambeth, Surrey
John Fleming/full age/Widower/Lighterman/St Giles Camberwell/George Fleming/Lighterman/Dec'd
Marianne Charman Shaw/full age/Spin/ /Upper Kennington Lane/John Shaw/Hairdresser/Dec'd
By Licence - CH Burnham, Curate
Witnesses: Francis Charman, JE Shaw, Isabella Fleming

Reference Note 7
1861 Census - Camberwell - St Giles - Peckham
#107 - 24 Hanover St, Peckham
John Fleming Head Mar 37 Lighterman Lambeth, Surrey
Marianne C. Fleming Wife Mar 31 Lambeth, Surrey
Catherine Fleming Dau Unm 8 Scholar Bermondsey
Mary E Fleming Dau Unm 6 Scholar Bermondsey, Surrey
Alice I Fleming Dau Unm 5 Scholar Bermondsey, Surrey
John George Fleming Son Unm 6m Peckham, Surrey
Jane E Fleming Sister-in-law Unm 22 Gentlewoman Lambeth, Surrey
Susan Pennells Servant Unm 17 House Servant Burwash, Sussex
Margaret Scales Servant Unm 14 Nursemaid Newington, Surrey
I believe the surname for Jane E above should be Shaw not Fleming - see John's marriage certificate (Ref 6)

Reference Note 8
GRO Birth Certificate - Camberwell
10 Oct 1860

Reference Note 9
GRO Death Certificate: Greenwich 1d/482
St Paul's, Deptford, Greenwich

 Informant & present at the death: Mary Pullee, 8 New Francis St, Deptford

Reference Note 10
Will of John Fleming. Dated 9 Aug 1868 - sole Executor Robert Johnson of 124 Jamaica Rd, Lighterman.
-- I bequeath all monies and property to my children for their support with a policy of life assurance in the Albert Insurance Co for 300 pounds unto the said children viz: Catherine Fleming, Mary Emma Fleming, Isabella Alice Fleming, John George Fleming, Marianne Shaw Fleming, George Fleming and Arthur Fleming and I appoint Robert Johnson of Jamaica Road, Horsleydown sole Executor.
Witnesses: Edward WALTER, 2 Ashby Place, Brockley Rd, New Cross, Surrey
William CHAPMAN, 8 Queen's Terrace, Grove Rd, Forest Hill, Kent, Corn factor
Sworn at 13 Wellington St, Southwark before Henry Simpson of London (Commission to administer oaths of Chancery)
Effects under 600 pounds sterling
Proved at London 13 Nov 1868
Witnesses: Robert Johnson of 124 Jamaica Rd, Bermondsey, Lighterman.
(For reasons currently unknown this will was resworn in 1886 when effects were stated as under 1500 pounds.)

Reference Note 11
GRO Death Certificate:

Informant & present at the death: Mary Pullee, 8 New Francis St, Deptford.

Reference Note 13
St Catherine's House Index to Wills and Administrations in England.

1885 - Marianne Charman Fleming (resworn 1886) Administration granted 24 Nov. (wife of John Fleming) late of 2 St Paul's Terrace, Brockley Road, New Cross, Kent. d.24 Jun 1868 at 2 St Paul's Terrace, Brockley Road, New Cross, Kent. Probate granted to Alfred Bedington Esq of Upper Tollington Park, Middlesex and Clement Lowe, Dockhead, Bermondsey, Surrey, Veterinary Surgeon, the Executors of the Will of Elizabeth Johnson widow of the Sole Executors of the will of Robert Johnson, the Sole Executor of the Will of the said John Fleming.

1886 - Fleming, Arthur, late of 3 Rectory Terrace, Brockley Road, New Cross, Kent. d 25 Jun 1869. Granted 8th Jun to Marianne Shaw Fleming, of Church St, Ewell, Spinster, sister and one of the next of kin.

1886 - Fleming, Mary Emma, late of 98 Sandgate Road, Folkeston, Kent, spinster d.17 Oct 1869. Granted 6 Jun to Marianne Shaw Fleming, of Church St, Ewell, spinster by the Half blood and one of the next of kin.

1887 - William Mortleman, Will, late of 23 Christchurch Road, Folkeston, Mariner in the Steam Packet Service of the South Eastern Railway Company. d. 17 Apr 1887 at 23 Christchurch Road, Folkeston. Proved 23 May and probate granted to Isabella Catherine Mortleman.

1901 - Isabella Catherine Mortleman of Cledge St Margaret's Dover. d.14 Jul 1901 Probate granted 23 Aug to Isabella Mortleman, spinster.