NAA: A1, 1920/3425
Panse, Elsie Muriel
Digital copy - 38429
| Occupation as written | Home Duties |
| Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
| Application received | 23 Jan 1920 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | EC |
| Date of approval or denial | 25 Feb 2020 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | Goolwa, South Australia |
| Modern country | Australia |
| Age on application | 40 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 33 |
| Port of Departure | Southampton |
| Port of Arrival | Adelaide |
| Date of arrival | 4 Jan 1913 |
| Name of ship | Gneisenan |
| Address in Australia | 20 George St., Unley Park, Adelaide |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 3 years |
| Previous address 1 | Claremont |
| Address State | Western Australia |
| Time at address | 3 years |
| Previous address 2 | Adelaide |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 1 years |
| Married | Widow |
| Children | Yes |
2: son born in England and daughter born in Germany, both in local school, St. George |
| Name of reference | Ernest Maurice Sabine |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (SA) |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | p.34 - wants a passport to travel to the US because her youngest sister 'needs a companion' but will return 'within six months'. Does not want to be naturalised initially as only income to support children is from her dead husband's bank in Germany and worried about losing it. Also suggests did not realise no longer 'Australian'. p.28, 5 Jan 1920: 'It is very difficult to realise you are Germany when you know you are not.' |
p.34, Elsie to H&T D, 12/12/19: S Australia b., both parents 'of British descent'. Married German in 1906. He died in 1912. 4 brothers served in the AIP, all in Gallipoli and/o Egypt, one also in Frrance, and one killed (Eric Gordon Clark).
p.33, W H Kelly, House of Rep, to D of H&T, 12/12/19 - She tried to get a passport with her sisteer but he reminded her that 'in the eyes of international law' she was German. 'I know her well and can vouch for her loyalty, which in view of her Australian birth and association would not be questioned by anyone who knows her.'
p.32, Letter to Hunt from P McM. Glynn, 13 Dec 1919 - another letter of support, describing her as an 'Australian born of British race... SHe had three brothers at the front, so merit, which is everything, is in her favour.'
p.13, Memorandum, LF, 17/2/20 - summarising police report. v brief. Met husband in London in 1906. Married. After 13 months moved to Leipzic. Returned to Australia when husband died in 1913. She 'is highly respected, and a proper person'