NAA: A1, 1917/11128

Eckermann, Gretchen Rudolphine Marie

Digital copy - 35951

Details

Occupation as written	waitress
Standardised occupation	DE05: Dealing - Food
Application received	1 Sep 1917
Application status	Denied
Official	A.H.
Date of approval or denial	20 Sep 1917
If rejected, why?	Enemy alien. 'not proceeded with'
Birthplace as written	Altona, Schleswig Holstein, Germany
Modern country	Germany
Age on application	23
Age on arrival in Australia	3
Port of Departure	Germany
Port of Arrival	Williamstown
Date of arrival	13 Nov 1896
Name of ship	Glera
Voyage	Glera (1896-11-13)

Addresses

Address in Australia	Eckermann Glenray, William Street
Address State	Victoria
Time at address

Previous address 1	Abbotsford
Address State	Victoria
Time at address

Previous address 2	Ascot Vale
Address State	Victoria
Time at address

Previous address 3	Mount Parade
Address State	Victoria
Time at address

Family

Married	No
Children	No

References

Name of reference	Jabez Hudson
Occupation of reference	Postmistress, Victoria
Marginalia description	'Ger' p.1
Police report attached	No
Link to other applicant
Literate	Yes

Why are they applying?

Reason	other
Other information	see below - brother applied for active serice and discovered not naturalised

Further comments

Her father’s file is NAA: A1, 1917/2504, Johann August Richard Eckermann – Naturalisation. He was approved in late 1916 because of being ‘respectable’ and because of previous bureaucratic incompetence: he had filled in the naturalisation form before a Justice of the Peace in 1904, and was told by the judge that it was his certificate. When war broke out, he took the application form to the Police, who also accepted it.

Her brother, Hans Johan Adolph Eckermann, NAA: A1, 1917/6738, worked for the Salvation Army Boys Home in Bayswater, Victoria. He discovered that he, and the rest of the family, were not naturalised only when he applied for active service. He is successful

Family info from Memorandum, 19/6/1917, p.4