NAA: A1, 1921/9666
Przybilla, Marianna
Digital copy - 40136
Occupation as written | Household duties |
Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
Application received | 11 Jun 1917 |
Application status |
Multiple applications |
Official | |
Date of approval or denial | 7 Jun 1917 |
Date of final conclusion | 13 Aug 1921 |
If rejected, why? | illiterate (twice rejected); approved in 1921 when law changed |
Birthplace as written | Wymyetawal, Warsaw |
Modern country | Poland |
Age on application | 63 |
Age on arrival in Australia | 34 |
Port of Departure | Hamburg |
Port of Arrival | Rockhampton |
Date of arrival | 20 Jul 1887 |
Name of ship | Merkera |
Voyage | Merkera (1887-07-20) |
Address in Australia | Stanley Street, Rockhampton |
Address State | Queensland |
Time at address | |
Married | Widow |
Children | Yes |
3 - two girls and 1 boy. works 'for my son Mark who keeps me' |
Name of reference | Siegfried Wolff |
Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (Queensland) |
Marginalia description | |
Police report attached | Yes |
Link to other applicant | |
Literate | No |
Reason | Pension |
Other information | |
Russian Pole, 63, widow, first app on 7 June 1917 but rejected then and again in 1919 because she was unable to read and write English, despite clear hardship
case forwarded by L E Groom, as Attorney General in 1919, and at Dept of Works and Railways, 19 March 1921. Approved 13 August 1921. Several testimonies that she can speak and understand English v well (law changed)
says works 'for my son Mark who keeps me'