Occupation as written | domestic duties |
Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
Application received | 24 Apr 1920 |
Application status | Approved |
Official | |
Date of approval or denial | 4 Aug 1920 |
If rejected, why? | |
Birthplace as written | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Modern country | Denmark |
Age on application | 68 |
Age on arrival in Australia | 19 |
Port of Departure | Denmark |
Port of Arrival | Maryborough |
Date of arrival | 1 Jan 1871 |
Name of ship | Shakespeare |
Voyage | Shakespeare (1871-08-03) |
Address in Australia | 23 Glebe Street, Edgecliff |
Address State | New South Wales |
Time at address | 45 years |
Previous address 1 | Queensland |
Address State | Queensland |
Time at address | 4 years |
Married | Widow | |
Children | Yes | 9: 8 born in Sydney, and one in Brisbane |
Name of reference | Frank Lipscomb |
Occupation of reference | Police Constable, New South Wales |
Marginalia description | p.8 application, she wrote Denmark, and this has been crossed out and German put (not in original hand) |
Police report attached | Yes |
Link to other applicant | |
Literate | Yes |
Reason | Pension |
Other information | Memorandum, Foenander, 22/6/20, p.13: 'She desires to obtain the old age pension.' |
See also NAA: SP43/3, LAURA WURZ (Sydney, 1918)
27/8/1920, p.5, Hunt has to write to ask for certificate back as they put her age as 59, when she is actually 68. (see Marginalia)
p.10 application: parents both Danish, husband German. p.12 renounces loyalty to Denmark as well.
p.20, applicant to Hunt, 31 March 1920: explains that husband born in Frankfurt am Marne in 1849, 'then a republic' and that he left Germany in 1864, 'two years before Frankfurt came under the rule of Germany'
Memorandum, Foenandeer, 22/6/20, p.13: from Police Report that 'One son and two sons-in-law served with the A.I.F.'