| Occupation as written | None |
| Standardised occupation | XX00: Other - Other |
| Application received | 1 Jan 1919 |
| Application status | Denied |
| Official | PMcMG |
| Date of approval or denial | 5 Aug 1919 |
| If rejected, why? | husband still living |
| Birthplace as written | None |
| Modern country | Australia |
| Age on application | None |
| 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 | |
| Address State | |
| Time at address |
| Married | Yes |
| Children | Unknown |
| Name of reference | None |
| Occupation of reference | None |
| Marginalia description | p.1 'F' |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | wartime problems. Born AUstralian and never left Australia. |
British-born. Husband Austrian. Rejected as husband still living (McGlynn, 5 August 1919, p.12). Applications made repeatedly, and pushed by F. J. Hawkes, Esq., English Scottish & Australian Bank, Sydney, on behalf of husband and wife.
Husband, Max Preston, interned. He's Czecho-Slovak and interned in ENgland (p.8 letter from Hawkes). McGlynn himself writes, p.12, 5 August 1919, to tell Hawkes that his sister (the applicant) cannot be reinstated as 'it being contrary to the policy of the Department to grant naturalization to women whose husbands are living, and are of alien nationality; in other words, the Department does not concider it desirable that husband and wife should owe separate allegiance to two distinct Governments.'
Never a formal application, just the husband interned and her concern turning into also a request for her to be naturalised, so many details missing.
She’s clearly anxious that her husband will just be deported back to Germany and not allowed back into Australia at all (her letter, 20 Feb 1919). He had still not been released as of 25 Sept 1919, when file ends. File for him undigitised: NAA: MP367/1, 567/7/4945. Photograph: NAA: D3597, 5465, TITLE: PRESTON, Max CATEGORY: photograph FORMAT: b&w print STATUS: preservation material