[2] Her father, Commander Richard Baker Smith, who was in the Royal Navy married again and had eleven more children.

[2] In 1848 Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter, placed an appeal in the weekly Anglican newspaper The Guardian which appeared in January 1848 for help for the poor of Devonport.

Sellon contacted Edward Bouverie Pusey whom she knew and he introduced her to a local clergyman.

[6] One of their important early actions was to tend to the victims if the 1849 cholera outbreak which started around Union Street.

[8] The cost of this new building was said to be largely borne by Dr Pusey[8] but another source considers that it was Sellon who paid the bills.

[8] Queen Emma and Sellon helped four Hawaiian girls to be educated at Ascot: Palemo Kekeekaapu, Elizabeth Keomailani Crowningburg, Kealakai and Manoanoa Shaw.