What’s available physically?
The following works by Thelma McKay resolve most land grant enquiries.
- 1804-1823 Index to Early Land Grants, VDL
- 1824-1832 Register of Land Grants, VDL
- 1810-c1850 Land grants – miscellaneous papers re New South Wales and Tasmanian land grants, 1810-c.1850, from five sources in the Mitchell Library, Sydney (Microfilm)
Other useful archival sources for locating land grants
- Card index in the Reading Room in Hobart
- 1824-1834 Warrants issued by the Lieutenant-Governor instructing the Surveyor-General to locate and measure free grants (LSD378)
- c1822-1964 General correspondence. The earlier correspondence for this series includes applications for land grants, requests for surveys of land as well as other matters relating to the management and disposal of Crown Lands (LSD1)
- 1826-1828 Journals of the Land Commissioners for Van Diemen’s Land (indexed)
- 1821-1826 Register of Land Grants (AC384) Alphabetical
- 1832-1836 Index to applications for titles (SC295)
- 1836-1926 Register of applications for the issue of titles to grants (SC309)
- Library and other resources about land grants