| Occupation as written | Tailoress |
| Standardised occupation | MF23: Manufacturing - Dress |
| Application received | 12 Mar 1917 |
| Application status | Multiple applications |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 20 Sep 1917 |
| Date of final conclusion | 29 Apr 1926 |
| If rejected, why? | enemy alien 1917. approved 1926 |
| Birthplace as written | Freienwalde, Pomern, Germany |
| Modern country | Poland |
| Age on application | 58 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 32 |
| Port of Departure | England |
| Port of Arrival | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Date of arrival | 15 Dec 1890 |
| Name of ship | Elbe |
| Voyage | Elbe (1890-12-15) |
| Address in Australia | 70 Seventh Avenue, Maylands, Perth |
| Address State | Western Australia |
| Time at address | 22 years |
| Previous address 1 | Melbourne |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 5 years, 6 months |
| Previous address 2 | Adelaide |
| Address State | South Australia |
| Time at address | 5 months |
| Married | Widow | |
| Children | Yes | 1 female (W. Australia) 1 male (Victoria) |
| Name of reference | Edmund Retchford |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace, Marylands, Western Australia |
| Marginalia description | Veto. Husband - German not natl |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | According to son-in-law's letter from 1918 and her application in 1925, the family want her to be naturalised and 'have full citizen rights' (p.8) |
F J Quinlan, Acting Secretary, to Walter, 13 March 1917: asks for husband's nationality and whether he was ever natz
Walten to Quinlan, 22 March 1917: he was German, Ardolf Conrad Heinrich Walter, b.Hanover, 8 March 1857. d.London, 10 May 1889.
Memorandum, W Foemander, 14 May 1917 (summarising Police Report): left Germany when 15, and went to live in England, living there for 18 years before going to Australia. 'Mrs Walter bears an excellent character and does not associate with Germans. Few of her acquaintances are aware of her nationality. Applicant did not trouble to become naturalized earlier as she considered that she was virtually a British subject... lives with a married daughter whose husband is at the front. The loyal sentiments of the daughter receive strong support from the mother.'
HOWEVER, handwritten notes below: 'Sec. states that Minister approves this. WBB, 19.5' and below this 'Certificate not issues: Cabinet declined to accept this class of application. RWR, 20/9/17)
Hunt to Walter, 20 Sept 1917: 'the application is not being proceeded with at the present time' Handwritten: 'noted on list of Refusals CB 24/9'
L. B. Hughes, to Dept, 6 March 1918: 'As I have just returned from Active Service in France, this is the first opportunity I have had of seeing the papers in connection with this matter. Mrs Walter is my mother-in-law & has lived with me for 15 years...she has never had anything whatever to do with German people, in fact for all the years I have known her, I have never heard her utter a word of the German language... the simple reason why she has not been naturalized before, is because of the conditions she has lived under for so many years working for her children (as she lost her husband 28 yrs ago), she has never really thought it necessary. I would like you to reconsider this application, as no doubt you must see that it is a fair one, naturally it concerns me very much, as Mrs Walter is my wifes mother & I have four children, who I left to go & fight for my country, & I can assure you Mrs Walter has our countrys welfare at heart as much as any of us... I do hope you will be able to fix it up, or give me some reason why the application is not being proceeded with.'
Hunt to Hughes, 13 March 1918: 'no enemy aliens are being naturalized at the present time, except in cases of extreme hardship.'
Hughes to H&T Dept, 26 November 1925: she wants to apply again so please supply papers.
Application granted finally 29/4/1926