What happened to Dorothea Weber?

[Greensleeves]

This is just the sort of search that RCers are so good at, I thought I'd post it in here to see if you can come up with the answer, having read this piece on the BBC News website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-35266312

As you will see, Dorothea Weber lived in the Channel Isles and hid her Jewish friend from the Nazis during WW2.  Believing that her Austrian husband had been killed during the war, Dorothea subsequently married Francis Flanagan.  However, her first husband, Anton Weber, was alive, and she was subsequently convicted of bigamy. 

Dorothea is being nominated for an honour to mark her bravery in shielding her friend.  But no-one knows what happened to her after 1946.

[groom]

This is her registration and gives her birth and maiden name

Dorothea Weber  nee [Dorothea Le Brocq]
Birth Date:   14 May 1913
Registration Date:   1941
Place:   7, West Park Avenue, Jersey, Channel Islands
Leaving Date:   1945

http://catalogue.jerseyheritage.org/collection/Details/archive/110078213

Her nationality would have been German due to her marriage.

[rosball]

A Dorothea Elizabeth WEBER, nationality German, arrived in Adelaide, South Australia per Orcades
15 April 1952.   No other info there and I can't find a death on South Australia BDM
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/

[Ruskie]

Looks like an interesting challenge.

I don't have time to look now, but it might be worth checking Trove, and The Ryerson Index.

[groom]

I believe that Dorothea is listed as a tourist, so maybe just visiting. There is another Dorothea Weber mentioned in an Australian obituary, but it's not her as she was in her 80s when she died in the 1950s.

The problem is, we don't know whether she went back to her first husband when he returned from the dead, or whether she stayed with the one she married bigamously, in which case she may have called herself Dorothea Flanagan.

[Greensleeves]

I can't find a death for her in the UK under any of her surnames.  I wonder if she did actually return to Britain or managed to stay in Australia.

[IgorStrav]

Haven't been able to do any more tracking, but did just want to say - having read the story - that it seems really unfair to have been sentenced to prison for bigamy, when it was committed under the impression that a first husband had died in the war. 

[groom]

From what I've read, it wasn't that uncommon. I suppose if you didn't have any news of your husband for several years, especially once the war ended, it would be quite logical to think he had died and his body hadn't been discovered. I think the fact that she was given a year's probation rather than imprisonment may mean that she was treated as leniently as possible. It could be that she had to be charged with bigamy in order for her marriage to Francis Flanagan to be annuled.