NAA: A1, 1915/13127
Schatz, Clara Wilhelmina Emily
Digital copy - 316761
| Occupation as written | white worker / supervisor |
| Standardised occupation | MF24: Manufacturing - Dress sundries |
| Application received | 1 Aug 1915 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 2 Aug 1915 |
| Date of final conclusion | 2 Sep 1915 |
| If rejected, why? | Initially, 'not being proceeded with' |
| Birthplace as written | Hamburg, Germany |
| Modern country | Germany |
| Age on application | 33 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 1 |
| Port of Departure | Germany |
| Port of Arrival | Adelaide |
| Date of arrival | 1 Jan 1883 |
| Name of ship | Marsella |
| Voyage | Marsalla (1883-10-10) |
| Address in Australia | 'Redfern', 35 The Avenue, Winsor, Melbourne |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 2 years |
| Previous address 1 | Melbourne |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 29 years |
| Name of reference | John Edmond Ochilton |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (Victoria) |
| Marginalia description | NAA: MP16/1, 1916/1596. Miss Clara Wilhelmina Emily Schatz, p.8: Includes handwritten Information Sheet: 'This woman is a cripple - walks with aid of crutch', can speak English 'quite well' (seems connected to the previous page, which explains that she wishes to travel abroad, dated 1916). |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | Buying land or mortgage |
| Other information | Trying to buy a cottage (M.P. file shows they were asked if this was ok in 1916, and raised no objections). Memo, Foemander, 31/8, p3: ‘an invalid, paralysed from the waist downwards [since birth]. She has acquired a cottage out of her earnings and is debarred from obtaining the title thereof until naturalized’ |
app form not used
Memo, F 31/8, p3: ‘an invalid, paralysed from the waist downwards [since birth]. lives w/ nat mother and employs ‘several hands’ in a clothing manufacturing company. ‘gets about on crutches; is of good character.’
MP16/1, 1916/1596: p.5, Melbourne Police Report, 7 July 1916: ‘She is a white worker and has ten or twelve girls working for her, and making clothing for the wholesale houses’
MP16/1, Y1920/78, Schatz, Wife and Family 1920, p3. Mrs V A Elliott, 519 Malvern Rd., Hawksburn, to Sect, Defence Dept, nd: ‘The women-folk of fallen soldiers are at a loss to understand why [Schatz] have escaped supervision of any kind during the years of warfare and since the Declaration of Peace… She has the brazen effrontery to keep a house of accommodation for fast women and cowardly shirkers – who let other men fight their battles while they remained safe’, ex. Maxwell Curlett (24): ‘in the Rolling Stock Branch of the Railway Service at Spencer St., who never enlisted but attempted to steal the honour due to decent upright men by claiming that he enlisted twice and was rejected. A search of the files at the Base Records last August revealed the falsehood… This German woman, and her daughter… boast of their cleverness in defying the law, saying that neither the Police nor the Defence Authorities can touch them because they are naturalised. Not one of the sons ever enlisted but changed their name to ‘Treasure’ when war broke out [hdwrtn note: ‘Sons are Aust. born & free to change their name if they so desire.’] ‘It is for such traitors that honorable men like my brother have fought and died … We only wish they could be deported – and free the country from the odium of their presence’ or ‘compel them to desist from harbouring shirkers… Far less offensive aliens than these had their windows broken, but these foul traitors have been allowed to go scot free’. Plain Clothes Branch, Victoria Police, 15 March 1920, pp4-5. Makes clear much of letter incorrect. Mother nat in 1884. Other residents: Ms Moreci, Mrs Jessie Cook, Mrs Dowell, Ms Robertson, Ms McAllese, Mrs Hard, all Australian, and Mr Henry Bertin, Italian engineer & nephew of Mereci. ‘The occupier of this house is a very quiet and hard working woman, and there is some vindictive woman writing disgraceful letters’. Letters also to Police Dept and house. A Miss Charlton, ‘who was boarding at this place’ and ‘was asked to leave’ and her friend ‘has been constantly witing these letters’ w fake name.