NAA: A1, 1920/2666
Quintel, Emilie
Digital copy - 38392
| Occupation as written | Home Duties |
| Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
| Application received | 29 Oct 1918 |
| Application status |
Multiple applications |
| Official | EC |
| Date of approval or denial | 29 Oct 1918 |
| Date of final conclusion | 24 Apr 2020 |
| If rejected, why? | illiterate. 2nd time approved. |
| Birthplace as written | Neckerhausen, Baden, Germany |
| Modern country | Germany |
| Age on application | 71 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 7 |
| Port of Departure | Germany |
| Port of Arrival | Sydney |
| Date of arrival | 1 Jan 1854 |
| Name of ship | Peru |
| Address in Australia | Tallegalla via Rosewood |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 42 years |
| Previous address 1 | Walloon |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 5 years |
| Married | No |
| Children | Yes |
p.42, letter, 19 Sept 1918 - asking if can apply as 'I have had a son at the Front who returned with a permanently injured knee.' |
| Name of reference | Joseph Ludwig Freiderich |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (Queensland) |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | p.42, letter, 19 Sept 1918 - asking if can apply as 'I have had a son at the Front who returned with a permanently injured knee.... I never thought it was necessary for women to be' naturalised
p.35, LF Memorandum, 24/9/19: states that she has property and 'desires to deal with it' |
p.39, 24 Oct 1918: She can sign her name but nothing else in English so it told she cannot become naturalised. This is her letter back explaining that when she arrived in Australia aged 7, 'they went away out West to work on stations for squatters. These stations were hundreds of miles from any school in those days. This gave me no chance whateverrr to learn and my parents were unable to teach me.'
p.36, 19 Sept 1919: she writes again in her own hand to show she can now read and write a little in English.
p.23, 18 Nov. 1919, Louise Muller to Hughes, Prime Minister: signed with name and 'British Australian'. This is a cover letter to go with above. Explains that applicant is 'a highted respected resident' and she can taught Emilie to read and write since the 1918 rejection. Points out has spent almost entire life in Australia; 'her advanced age, feeblee health, a weak sight, pevent her from learning much; she had a son in the present war (since deceased) and was unawar of the necessity for a Lady to become Naturalizd until about twelve months ago... always been a loyal subject of our King & Empire'
AH, 16 Feb 1920, p.21: AH rejects again.
Friend writes again, 8 March 1920, p.19.
Resubmitted to the EC who approve 4/5/20.
Friend writes again, 30 July 1920, p.10: chasing up certificate, and referring to applicant as 'mother'. 'Mother cannot write you owing to serious illnss, which has so affected her eyesight' (says `mother' again, 30 Aug. 1920, p.5, to confirm receipt)
BIG QUESTION: why no police report?