[2] Her marriage to John Robert Godley was registered in Llanrwst, Wales in the late summer of 1846.

[1] The Godleys, including their son Arthur and nursemaid Mary Powles, sailed for New Zealand aboard the Lady Nugent, departing Plymouth Sound on 13 December 1849, and arrived in Port Chalmers, Otago on 25 March 1850.

[4] That day while her husband and Captain Thomas, the Canterbury Association Chief Surveyor road over the Port Hills to Christchurch and the Dean's farm at Riccarton, Charlotte also went ashore and found comfortable emigration barracks already built and their own house almost completed.

[5] The Godley's residence at Lyttelton was a six-room wooden cottage where she hosted visitors including the Rev.

[7] The letters described Māori customs, local fashion, earthquakes, society ways in Dunedin, and details of meals, household management, and the climate.