"Seventy Years Old". The News (Adelaide). Vol. VII, no. 1, 046. South Australia. 19 November 1926. p. 7. Retrieved 15 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
"Augustus Short and Family"(PDF). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 3 March 2017. spelled "Melicent" on her baptism certificate, "Milicent" on an application relating to their marriage. She usually spelled her name "Millecent", occasionally "Millicent". Their elder daughter Millecent married George Glen.