NAA: A1, 1925/16450

Beste, Ella Marie Eliza

Digital copy - 1614756

Details

Occupation as writtenDomestic duties
Standardised occupationDS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties
Application received25 Aug 1914
Application status Multiple applications
OfficialA.H.
Date of approval or denial22 Oct 1914
Date of final conclusion8 Jul 1925
If rejected, why?enemy alien 1914. approved 1925
Birthplace as writtenHeimfeldt, Hanover, Germany
Modern countryGermany
Age on application32
Age on arrival in Australia22
Port of DepartureGermany
Port of ArrivalFremantle
Date of arrival29 Jun 1904
Name of shipSS Karlsruks
VoyageKarlsruhe (1904-06-29)

Addresses

Address in Australia79 (at the rear) Hampton Road, Femantle
Address StateWestern Australia
Time at address10 years

Family

MarriedNo
ChildrenNo

References

Name of referenceJohn Higham
Occupation of referenceJustice of the Peace (Western Australia)
Marginalia description

p.1 'F'

Police report attachedYes
Link to other applicant
LiterateYes

Why are they applying?

Reasonother
Other information

p.9, 1922 application: 'She has made her home here permanently and desired to have full citizen rights.' Further down, stated: 'There is nothing recorded against this woman. Her mother is British.'

Further comments

See also NAA: PP302/1, WA2893, Ella Marie Eliza BESTE (Perth, 1925)

See also NAA: PP14/3, GERMAN/BESTE E M E, BESTE Ella Marie Eliza - Nationality : German - [Application Form for Registration as Alien] (Perth, 1916-1920)

Certificate from Justice of the Peace, p.16, has note from Higham stating: 'The mother of applicant nee Eliza Bateman was born in Western Australia both her parents being British-born and British subjects'

Police Report, n.d. (Sept 1914), p.13: parents dead. lives with married brother, who is naturalised. Her mother was 'of the well known family of Batemans of Fremantle', who was married to a naturalised German in 1854, but he died in Shanghai in 1863 (after having 2 sons), and married another German in 1877 who was father of applicant, 'in the Church of England' in Hastings, England. All of the sons are already naturalised. 'of good repute and social standing'