NAA: A1, 1915/4149
Olsen, Catherine Maria
Digital copy - 32466
| Occupation as written | Domestic Duties |
| Standardised occupation | DS03: Domestic service - Other service |
| Application received | 15 Oct 1914 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 7 Dec 1914 |
| Date of final conclusion | 10 Mar 1915 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | Haderslev, Slesvig, Denmark now Germany |
| Modern country | Denmark |
| Age on application | 52 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 13 |
| Port of Departure | Denmark |
| Port of Arrival | Townsville |
| Date of arrival | 20 Aug 1884 |
| Name of ship | Carbasse |
| Voyage | Carbasse (1884-08-20) |
| Address in Australia | 3 Pemell St, Enmore, Sydney, c/o S. Bloomfield, Solicitor, 56 Elizabeth Street, Sydney |
| Address State | New South Wales |
| Time at address | 10 years |
| Previous address 1 | Ravenswood |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 2 years, 6 months |
| Previous address 2 | Charters Towers |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 17 years, 6 months |
| Married | Widow |
| Children | Yes |
2 males residence w her |
| Name of reference | William Best |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (New South Wales) |
| Marginalia description | p.1 'female' |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | Inheritance |
| Other information | – worried about what will happen to her property if she dies, re her children inheriting |
‘Denmark, now Germany’, age 52, widow, Dec 1914 told not being proceeded with (husband naturalised in Queensland, but she now lives in Sydney), but April 1915 approved
Memorandum, 8 March 1915: originally thought she could not be treated as a Dane, but suggests the Minister now ‘let this case be treated as “special”’ and that is agreed by the minister, SM, 10/3/15. The difference is because her solicitor, S. Bloofield, Sydney, has clarified that Schlesweig was Danish when she was born, her parents were both Danish, and she married a Dane, and has never been a German subject, it’s just that where she was born is now German. --- classic Schleswig-Holstein confusion!