NAA: A1, 1920/16159

Wurz, Laura

Digital copy - 3214412

Details

Occupation as writtendomestic duties
Standardised occupationDS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties
Application received24 Apr 1920
Application status Approved
Official
Date of approval or denial4 Aug 1920
If rejected, why?
Birthplace as writtenCopenhagen, Denmark
Modern countryDenmark
Age on application68
Age on arrival in Australia19
Port of DepartureDenmark
Port of ArrivalMaryborough
Date of arrival1 Jan 1871
Name of shipShakespeare
VoyageShakespeare (1871-08-03)

Addresses

Address in Australia23 Glebe Street, Edgecliff
Address StateNew South Wales
Time at address45 years
Previous address 1Queensland
Address StateQueensland
Time at address4 years

Family

MarriedWidow
ChildrenYes

9: 8 born in Sydney, and one in Brisbane

References

Name of referenceFrank Lipscomb
Occupation of referencePolice 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)
p.9 application someone incorrectly crossed out 68 and put 59 as age (certificate later had to be corrected)

Police report attachedYes
Link to other applicant
LiterateYes

Why are they applying?

ReasonPension
Other information

Memorandum, Foenander, 22/6/20, p.13: 'She desires to obtain the old age pension.'

Further comments

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.'