| Occupation as written | Housekeeper & Farm work |
| Standardised occupation | AG01: Agriculture - Farming/Land Service |
| Application received | 21 Dec 1920 |
| Application status | Approved |
| Official | EC |
| Date of approval or denial | 28 Sep 1921 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | millou-on-don, Tasmania, Australia |
| Modern country | Australia |
| Age on application | 34 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | None |
| Port of Departure | None |
| Port of Arrival | None |
| Date of arrival | None |
| Name of ship | None |
| Address in Australia | Dalwallinu |
| Address State | Western Australia |
| Time at address | 2 years |
| Previous address 1 | Tasmania |
| Address State | Tasmania |
| Time at address | 25 years |
| Previous address 2 | Victoria |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 1 years |
| Married | Widow | |
| Children | Yes | A boy, aged 3 1/4 |
| Name of reference | Meredith Roberts |
| Occupation of reference | Postmaster (Western Australia) |
| Marginalia description | p.1 'F' |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | Buying land or mortgage |
| Other information | Dora to Hunt, 24/9/20, p27: 'desire to own a piece of freehold & C. F. land in this district, by which I can make my living'; 'I thought the law was the same as in England. On the decease of husband a wife takes her own nationality.' |
Investigative Branch Report, 31 August 1921, p.15: 'She is an alien only by marriage and desires to revert to her original nationality and have full citizen rights.'
Dora to Hunt, 24/9/20, p27: wants to buy land but also writes 'I do not wish to be put to the xpns of becoming naturalised as I understand that should I remarry a naturalised subject at some future date it will be unneccessary.' Husband died over 2 yrs ago, was Dalmatian, and she was born in Tasmania.
p.11 describes nationality as 'Dalmatian (Yugo-Slav)' and p.14 too
p.13: parents' nationalities described as South Australian (Scotch) and Tasmanian (English)
p.15: Investigation Branch Report, August 1921: 'She is British born of British parents... Shee is an alien only by marriage and desires to revert to her original nationality and have full citizen rights.'
p.16, J. G. McLaren, Secretary, H&O, to H. E. Jones, Esq., General Post Office, Melbourne, 19 Aug 1921: 'the Minister has approved of Police Reports being dispenses with for the present in Western Australian cases, but he desires that refereence be made in each instance to you for such information as your officers can be able to supply.'
p.19, Minister, 16/8/21, handwritten note: ‘The position of these naturalization matters in W.A. is very unfortunate. I made a suggestion a few weeks ago that we should do without. Police reports in these W.A. cases. Otherwise it looks as if they maybe held up indefinitely.’ (on p.21, they explain that the police had been asked for a report in January 1921, and again in May, but never had on back - not an isolated case).