NAA: A1, 1922/8176
Albrecht, Martha Emma Johanna
Digital copy - 41982
| Occupation as written | housekeeper |
| Standardised occupation | DS03: Domestic service - Other service |
| Application received | 29 Sep 1914 |
| Application status |
Multiple applications |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 17 Oct 1914 |
| Date of final conclusion | 5 Apr 1922 |
| If rejected, why? | 1914 Enemy alien. 'not proceeded with'; 1922 husband still alive |
| Birthplace as written | Neusalz, Schlesien, Germany |
| Modern country | Poland |
| Age on application | 46 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 20 |
| Port of Departure | Germany |
| Port of Arrival | Melbourne |
| Date of arrival | 21 Jan 1888 |
| Name of ship | Nurnberg |
| Voyage | Nurnberg (1888-06-08) |
| Address in Australia | 55 Lindsay Street, Perth |
| Address State | Western Australia |
| Time at address | |
| Previous address 1 | 190 Charles St West Perth |
| Address State | Western Australia |
| Time at address | 19 years |
| Previous address 2 | Victoria |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 7 years |
| Married | Yes |
| Children | Yes |
1 son on Front (twice injured, rank of Captain)
3 - 2 sons and 1 female |
| Name of reference | William Arnold Grenville |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (Western Australia) |
| Marginalia description | 'Germ' p.1 |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | 'on behalf of her son' fighting on the Front |
husband in lunatic asylum for past 13 years (6/9/1914)
her letter to Hunt, nd (received 21 Dec): ‘seeing by the Paper that several Persons got naturalized last week and I been refused I can not understand… my eldest son is gone with the first Expeditionary Force to Egypt and doing his duty for his country [.] it was a perfect neglect on my part not to apply for it before the War started’. Already lived in Australia for past 30 years
Hunt says none under 60 being naturalised (Dec 1914).
Barrister letter, 14 Jan 1918: her ‘claim to naturalization is mainly on behalf of her Son Adolph Frederick Charles Albrecht, who enlisted as a Private in this State and has since risen to the rank of Captain, and has been twice wounded, and she naturally wishes on his account to have Certificate of Naturalisation’.
Final letter from J G McLaren, 16 May 1922, explaining that ‘a Certificate of Naturalization cannot be granted until the law is amended to eliminate married women from the “disability” definition.’