NAA: A659, 1943/1/1567
Reusch, Augusta Pauline
Digital copy - 1889597
| Occupation as written | domestic duties |
| Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
| Application received | 17 Jun 1915 |
| Application status |
Multiple applications |
| Official | A.H. |
| Date of approval or denial | 8 Jul 1915 |
| Date of final conclusion | 16 Aug 1920 |
| If rejected, why? | enemy alien. approv 1920 |
| Birthplace as written | Clausdorf, Germany |
| Modern country | Germany |
| Age on application | 55 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 37 |
| Port of Departure | Clausdorf |
| Port of Arrival | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Date of arrival | 1 Jul 1878 |
| Name of ship | Adolt |
| Voyage | Adolt (1878-07-01) |
| Address in Australia | MacKinnon Parade, North Adelaide |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | |
| Previous address 1 | Point Pass |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 2 years |
| Previous address 2 | Adelaide |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 5 years |
| Previous address 3 | Also Eumundi, Gawler, and Kent Town |
| Address State | |
| Time at address | |
| Married | Widow |
| Children | Yes |
3: 2 daughts, 1 son. Eldest daughter: Port Pirie, son Unley, daughter Kent Town. |
| Name of reference | Frederick Downs |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace, South Australia |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | June 1920, to Hunt: 'I feel it my duty to be naturalized, in fact just on 5 years ago I made every attempt to get my papers through, also 2 or 3 attempts during the last 3 years. Previous to that...I was ignorant of the fact that I had to be naturalized to be a British subject...a pension which I think - considering that I have reared a grown up family of 3+ all married, & I have lived honestly and worked hard in South Australia for upwards of 42 years - that I am justly entitled to the before mentioned.' |
Australian Coachmakers Employees' Federation, S Australian branch, to DEA, 11 March 1919: a member, A E Reusch, asking on behalf of his mother about her application in 1915. After her application had been returned on 19 June 1915 by Hunt because they wanted to know if her husband had been naturalised and because the oath of allegiance was not signed by the correct kind of J.P.
Response: Hunt, 14 March 1919: 'enemy aliens are not being naturalized at the present time except under very exceptional circumstances.' He writes to her on ? May 1920: invites her to provide 'what special reasons you have for wishing to be narualized at the present time.'
2 June 1920, Memorandum, Attorney-General's Department, Melbourne: she had no documents to prove place of birth 'and only knows what her parents (long since dead) told her. She has not registered as an alien, but her explanation that this was pure ignorance may be accepted. She is also enrolled on the Electoral Rolls, but states that the Police brought a card and told her that it must be filled in or she would be fined and she did not make a misstatement regarding naturalization knowingly. She has not come under any unfavourable notice and has applied for naturalization in order that she can get the Old Age Pension. SHe can read English but states that she cannot write very well owing to physical disabilities.' - her letter, June 1920, to Hunt: states she is 'practically an invalid'