NAA: A1, 1905/2213
McCutcheon, Hjelma
Digital copy - 2841
| Occupation as written | Nurse |
| Standardised occupation | PP08: Public services and Professionals - Medicine |
| Application received | 1 Jan 1905 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 1 May 1905 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | Nyboder, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Modern country | Denmark |
| Age on application | 25 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 10 |
| Port of Departure | None |
| Port of Arrival | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Date of arrival | 1 Jun 1889 |
| Name of ship | SS Waroonga |
| Voyage | Waroonga (1889-06-01) |
| Address in Australia | 166 Palmer Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney |
| Address State | New South Wales |
| Time at address | 3 years |
| Previous address 1 | Brisbane |
| Address State | Queensland |
| Time at address | 15 years |
| Name of reference | Robert Augustus Combermere Gibbings |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (New South Wales) |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | other |
| Other information | Photocopy of a telegram requesting her naturalisationg certificate for "Government billet" (the latter word is pencilled in). |
She claims to have lived in Brisbane for 15 yrs and Sydney for 3 yrs, but arrived in June 1889 and applied in April 1905 - 15yrs and 10 months, not 18 yrs.
The SS Waroonga was a 96.25 metres long passenger cargo vessel built at A & J Inglis with 2506 GRT launched on 25 December 1882. She was owned by Gray, Dawes & Co., Glasgow, and her maiden voyage was from London to Brisbane via Suez and Batavia on 26 March 1883.