| Occupation as written | Baker |
| Standardised occupation | MF26: Manufacturing - Baking |
| Application received | 24 Nov 1916 |
| Application status | Approved |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 15 Mar 1917 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | near Berlin, Germany |
| Modern country | Germany |
| Age on application | 69 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 9 |
| Port of Departure | Germany |
| Port of Arrival | Adelaide |
| Date of arrival | 25 Jan 1856 |
| Name of ship | Malvina Viedall |
| Voyage | Malvina Viedall (1856-01-25) |
| Address in Australia | Saddleworth |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 39 years |
| Previous address 1 | Pewsey Vale, Barossa |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 21 years |
| Married | Widow | |
| Children | Yes | 3: 1 son, two daughters, all in Saddleworth |
| Name of reference | Walter Henry Bee |
| 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 | Robert Badger, Solicitor, Selborne Chambers, to Attorney-General's Dept, 6 Sept 1916: queries whether client can apply, as 'German by birth but is anxious to become a British subject... arrived here in 1856, when 9 years of age... She never revisted the land of her birth.' Police Report, D L Hansberry, M.C., Riverton, 27 Jan 1917: did not apply sooner as thought father naturalised c.38 years before, and husband was before marriage. |
Robert Badger, Solicitor, Selborne Chambers, to Attorney-General's Dept, 6 Sept 1916: queries whether client can apply at the current time, and on 15 Sept. 1916, Hunt writes that she can and supplies an application to her solicitors.
When sent, includes a cover letter and endorsement from Berry Benny, Solicitor and Public Rotary, Waterhouse Chambers, Adelaide, 22 Nov 1916.
Hunt to Benny, 27 Nov 1916: husband's status?
Benny to Hunt, 15 Jan 1917: she does not know and he died 18 years before.
Police Report, D L Hansberry, M.C., Riverton, 27 Jan 1917: lived in Australia since 9, 'does not associate with Germans. Her three children were brought up in the Anglican Church, and educated in the Government State School. The whole of her associations and intercourse has been entirely with English people... fit and proper'
Hunt to Benny, 7 Feb 1917: checking if he knows if father was naturalised and can supply full name. - no evidence found for actual nat. for either.
Memorandum, special case made for Friebe to get naturalised, by W. S. H., 21 Feb 1917, on basis of age, length of residence, thought men in life naturalised, does not associate with Germans re: police report.
Approved, 24 Feb 1917