[4] According to the second Headmaster of the school, Thomas Johnstone, Love was "one of the best conducted, most perseveringly diligent, and most thoroughly amiable pupils that I have ever taught.’" He left Newington in September 1866 "in consequence of business depression".
[5] His father and brother had joined in a retail grocery shop at 476 George Street, Sydney, but in October 1866 Love & Son became insolvent.
Love was also appointed to be a Warden of the Southern Mining District by the Governor of New South Wales on 18 June 1887.
[9] Different details were published at the time of his death in 1924, where the offender was reported to be a young girl, at the Newtown court, for a breach of railway regulations and the sentence including twelve months in which to pay.
[13] On 3 December 1878, Love married Alice Emelie Rosa Spooner in St Andrew's Church, Walcha.