NAA: A1, 1906/8811
Bancke, Ella
Digital copy - 7658
| Occupation as written | Housekeeper |
| Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
| Application received | 1 Jan 1906 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 18 Dec 1906 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Modern country | Denmark |
| Age on application | 25 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 8 |
| Port of Departure | Copenhagen |
| Port of Arrival | Rockhampton |
| Date of arrival | 28 Sep 1889 |
| Name of ship | Orizaba |
| Voyage | Orizaba (1889-09-28) |
| Address in Australia | Cairns |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 5 years |
| Previous address 1 | Longreach |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 4 years |
| Previous address 2 | Barcaldine |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 8 years |
| Name of reference | Alexander Frederick John Draper |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (Queensland) |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | NAA: A1, 1904/10345: Schulz, Johanne Caroline |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | Inheritance |
| Other information | Ella mentions that she needs to become naturalised beause she has inherited some land and wishes to build a house, without naturalisation she is advised that this "will be at a standstill". |
Ella's ship the RMS Orizaba (the second of six of this name, and built the year after the first was broken up) was a royal mail steamer built in Barrow, England, in 1886, for the Orient Navigation Steam Ship Company. It was finally wrecked off Rockingham, Western Australia on 16 February 1905. On her approach to Fremantle, a smog of bushfire smoke was obscuring the coast and the captain lost his bearings. The ship went aground in 6.1 metres (20 ft) of water on Five Fathom Bank, west of Garden Island. All 160 people on board were evacuated safely. It is one of the largest ships ever to be wrecked in Australian waters.