What can I see online?
Search and view many records in the Tasmanian Names Index, including land grants between 1832 and 1935.
- 1804-1823 Index to copies of land grants issued (LSD404) (The index to LSD354)
- 1804-1823 Copies of land grants issued (LSD354) (Indexed by LSD404)
- 1804-1823 Registers of land granted – “Sydney Registers” volumes 1 and 2 (LSD405)
- 1824 Map of Tasmania showing land grants, distances from Hobart, notes on topography and settlement
- 1832-1935 Index to deeds of land grants (AD956) (The index to RD1)
- 1832-1935 Deeds of land grants (RD1) (Indexed by AD956)
- 1833-1878 Maps and survey charts (LSD264) (From the former Land & Surveys Department)
- 1837 Hughes’ map of Northern Tasmania with landowners’ index
- 1841-1846 Sprent’s survey maps of Hobart Town on LISTmap (AF393)
- Land district charts on LISTmap (AF396)
- 1824-1832 Register of location orders issued (LSD409/1/1-2)
- Miscellaneous land grant maps
- Tasmania, Australia, Deeds of Land Grants 1804-1935 (in Ancestry Library Edition – available onsite in all our libraries. When in Ancestry, click on New Collections and do a Title search for deeds of land grants)
Land granted to returned servicemen after WWI under the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act, 1916
- 1916-1932 Correspondence concerning offers by landholders to sell land for soldier settlement (AB3)
- 1917 County maps showing subdivided land (AB125)
- 1917-1927 Applications for advances to purchase stock, seed and agricultural implements (AB11)
- 1917-1927 Applications to lease land (LSD190)
- 1917-1940s Applications for land (LSD166)
- 1918-1940 Tenders, contracts, plans and correspondence about the construction of dwellings on land leased by Returned Soldiers (AB15)
- 1919-1920 Applications and correspondence relating to the selection of land (AB13)
- 1919-1928 Register of approved applications to lease (AB37)
- 1919-1930 Register of applicants for leases (AB38)
- 1919-1929 Applications for permanent improvements to land (AB12)
- 1923-1955 Register of short term and temporary leases (AB39)