NAA: A63, A1910/94
Dittmer, Catarina
Digital copy - 53269
| Occupation as written | Married woman |
| Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
| Application received | 13 Dec 1909 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 13 Jan 1910 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | Borkan, Province of Prussia |
| Modern country | Germany |
| Age on application | 69 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 34 |
| Port of Departure | Hamburg |
| Port of Arrival | Port Adelaide |
| Date of arrival | 6 Jan 1876 |
| Name of ship | Herschel |
| Voyage | Herschel (1876-01-06) |
| Address in Australia | 13 Saunders Street, Leederville, Perth |
| Address State | Western Australia |
| Time at address | 10 years |
| Previous address 1 | Springtown and Adelaide |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 23 years |
| Married | Yes |
| Children | Yes |
5: one son in Broken Hill, New South Wales, and four daughters in Western Australia. |
| Name of reference | John Currie Brickhill |
| Occupation of reference | J.P., Perth, Western Australia |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | No |
| Reason | N/A |
| Other information | |
birthplace of Borkan - found Borckon in Prussia and Borken in present-day Germany but this does not appear to be in Prussia. Probably the former?
Her ship the Herschel was built in 1857 as the iron screw steamer EDITH BYRNE by the Canada Works, at Birkenhead. In March 1865, she was purchased from Byrne, of Liverpool, for 8,250 pounds by the
Hamburg shipowner, Robert Miles Sloman, who removed her engines and renamed her HERSCHEL, after an earlier vessel that he had sold in Indonesia in 1860. Measurements as a sailing v essel: 787 tons; 50,3 x 9,1 x 5,79 meters (length x beam x depth of hold).
Catarina says her husband resides in Perth. In a letter she states that her husband obtained a naturalisation certificate a few months ago. She also gives the number of years she has lived in Western and Southern Australia.