[4] In 1851, he went to the Victorian gold fields with William Calverly Riley from Collingwood and Henry Douglas Jackson, who would later marry his sister Sarah Lightband.

[5] After two cattle drovers found gold in the hills behind Parapara in October 1856, Lightband and William Hough did some further prospecting at the original claim.

[5] During his West Coast days, he once had to stay in the camp of the Burgess-Kelly Gang due to the Arnold River having been in flood.

[11] In 1863 and 1864, Lightband was accompanying a party of entrepreneurs who travelled to England with a number of Māori chiefs and some of their families.

[17] Lightband and his 16-year-old grandnephew Harry Jackson[18]—a grandson of his sister—left Nelson by canoe for Moturoa / Rabbit Island on 4 May 1909 across the Tasman Bay.

[19] At the council's 14 May 1909 meeting, Jesse Piper as mayor of Nelson, moved that a letter of condolence be sent to the Lightband family.

[21] Lightband's body was found on the beach of Rabbit Island on 9 July, some two months after the drowning, and the remains were interred at Wakapuaka Cemetery.