NAA: A1, 1915/18895
Rohanna, Sophie
Digital copy - 33763
| Occupation as written | Married woman |
| Standardised occupation | XX00: Other - Other |
| Application received | 5 May 1915 |
| Application status |
Denied |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 5 May 1915 |
| If rejected, why? | Enemy Alien. Asiatic |
| Birthplace as written | Mount Lebanon. Syria |
| Modern country | Lebanon |
| Age on application | 29 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 5 |
| Port of Departure | Syria |
| Port of Arrival | Adelaide |
| Date of arrival | 16 Dec 1890 |
| Name of ship | None |
| Address in Australia | William Street,
Orange East |
| Address State | New South Wales |
| Time at address | 12 years |
| Previous address 1 | Broken Hill |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 8 years |
| Previous address 2 | Melbourne |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 5 years |
| Married | Yes |
| Children | Yes |
3 boys
2 girls |
| Name of reference | William Ernest Banffles |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (New South Wales) |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | No |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | A vendor (for home ownership) is refusing to trade with her, considering her an enemy alien |
Refused as an Asiatic (Hunt to her, 5 May 1915, p.40). Is she an enemy alien? Attorney General is consulted and references the English Court of Appeal case, Porter v Freudenberg, and say this means that Sophie is not an enemy alien ‘as regards civil rights and liabilities’ (signed Mahon, to H R M Pigott, MP, 4 Oct 1915).
Husband Syrian and migrated when 8. Both now technically enemy aliens as territory now Turkey. They own a shop. See Attorney General’s Opinion: Alien Enemy, Whether An Unnaturalised Turkish Subject Resident in Australia is an Alien Enemy’, R R Janan, Secretary, 15/10/15, p.7-10. So, not naturalised but can purchase property.