NAA: A1, 1915/9106

Kretzschmer, Euphrosyne Mary

Digital copy - 32893

Details

Occupation as written	Domestic Duties
Standardised occupation	DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties
Application received	1 May 1915
Application status	Unknown
Official
Date of approval or denial	None
Date of final conclusion	31 May 1915
If rejected, why?	withdrawn (see why apply)
Birthplace as written	Sydney
Modern country	Australia
Age on application	28
Age on arrival in Australia	0
Port of Departure	None
Port of Arrival	None
Date of arrival	None
Name of ship	None

Addresses

Address in Australia	"Chilcote", Violet Street, Chatswood
Address State	New South Wales
Time at address

Family

Married	Widow
Children	No

References

Name of reference	Charles Gilbert Hayden, Judge
Occupation of reference	Justice of the Peace (New South Wales)
Marginalia description
Police report attached	Yes
Link to other applicant
Literate	Yes

Why are they applying?

Reason	Recently widowed
Other information

Further comments

Incomplete.
Police Report, Chatsworth, 30 May 1915, p.3: been told by ‘Applicant’s Solicitor Mr Magney, of Boyce and Magney, 79 Elizabeth Street, Sydney… applicant does not desire to proceed further with this application, at present…’ lives w/ mother. Father was ‘late Lieut. Grieve, who was killed in South Africa, and to whose memory the residents erected a monument at Watson’s Bay.’ She lived with her own husband in Germany for 12 months, then returned to Australia. Now widow. ‘Applicant and family are Scotch with strong national feelings against the German nation at the present time… She has now been advised that, as her husband’s widow she is entitled to considerable property [in Germany], which she would lose if she were naturalized, which is the reason for the temporary withdrawal’ (p.12).