Occupation as written | Domestic duties |
Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
Application received | 25 Aug 1914 |
Application status | Multiple applications |
Official | A.H. |
Date of approval or denial | 22 Oct 1914 |
Date of final conclusion | 8 Jul 1925 |
If rejected, why? | enemy alien 1914. approved 1925 |
Birthplace as written | Heimfeldt, Hanover, Germany |
Modern country | Germany |
Age on application | 32 |
Age on arrival in Australia | 22 |
Port of Departure | Germany |
Port of Arrival | Fremantle |
Date of arrival | 29 Jun 1904 |
Name of ship | SS Karlsruks |
Voyage | Karlsruhe (1904-06-29) |
Address in Australia | 79 (at the rear) Hampton Road, Femantle |
Address State | Western Australia |
Time at address | 10 years |
Married | No |
Children | No |
Name of reference | John Higham |
Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (Western Australia) |
Marginalia description | p.1 'F' |
Police report attached | Yes |
Link to other applicant | |
Literate | Yes |
Reason | other |
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.' |
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'