NAA: A659, 1943/1/1176
Leonhard, Elizabeth
Digital copy - 1888421
| Occupation as written | domestic duties. wife of a German subject |
| Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
| Application received | 1 Jan 1915 |
| Application status |
Denied |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 1 Jan 1915 |
| If rejected, why? | Enemy alien. 'not proceeded with' (husband alive and rich) |
| Birthplace as written | Townsville, Queensland |
| Modern country | Australia |
| Age on application | 33 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | None |
| Port of Departure | None |
| Port of Arrival | None |
| Date of arrival | 1 Jan 1882 |
| Name of ship | None |
| Address in Australia | 50 Pitt St., Milsons Point, Sydney |
| Address State | New South Wales |
| Time at address | |
| Married | Yes |
| Children | Yes |
1 son |
| Name of reference | N M Burney |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace, New South Wales |
| Marginalia description | p.1 - 'P' |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | Inheritance |
| Other information | Report by Sergeant, No.6 Police Station, North Sydney, 16 June 1915: 'all her family being British, she desires to become what she always considered herself, and Englishwoman, and also that she would then have a vote.’ ‘the applicant is a fit and proper person to be naturalized, she being a wealthy woman, and it would then give her the opportunity to deal with her own personal property.’
solicitors, Perpetual Trustee Chambers, Sydney, 17 February 1943: 'wishes to revert to her British nationality' |
Application 'I am by birth a' - birth crossed out and marriage written. British subject written with (Germany in a different hand next. 'REsided in Australia all my life with the exception of two trips to home land'
Germany by marriage. British subject by birth. arrived 1882. - always lived in Britain or Australia. So born in Queensland, but writes ‘Resided in Australia all my life with the exception of two trips to home land.’
9 June 1915 - Hunt sends query to Inspector-General, Police, Sydney asking if fit and proper and if assoc. with Germans. asks if husband naturalised - no.
Report by Sergeant, No.6 Police Station, North Sydney, 16 June 1915: lives with husband, Otto Leonhard, and son. Daughter of Mr Hamilton (deceased) ‘a gentleman of the highest repute, and wealthy, and on his decease left his property to his three daughters, the applicant being one of them. She owns in her own right, the residence in which she and her husband resides, it being a wedding present from her father.’ Hubby returned quickly from trip to Germany just after start of war and applied for naturalisation but was told couldn’t. ‘He was a wool buyer and broker, and a Member of the firm of Dewaz and Leonhard, but has now retired from the firm’. Registered as alien enemy and on 1/12/14 handed in repeating rifle and ammunition. She admitted ‘friends of German nationality visit her husband… all her family being British, she desires to become what she always considered herself, and Englishwoman, and also that she would then have a vote.’ ‘the applicant is a fit and proper person to be naturalized, she being a wealthy woman, and it would then give her the opportunity to deal with her own personal property.’
Handwritten note from AH, 24/6/15, ‘Notwithstanding police report I suggest that this stand over.’ Another handwritten note, ‘Defer’ signed JM? [minister], 24/6/15.
another note from solicitors, Perpetual Trustee Chambers, Sydney, 17 February 1943, with her asking again to fill out a form. Says her husband died ‘some years ago’ - nothing else in the file. See also NAA: C123, 9449