Queensland Land and Property

Online Resources

 * Queensland Land Records at FindMyPast, Index ($)
 * 1842-1859 - Register of land sold 1842-1859, index. Also at FindMyPast ($)
 * 1848-1874 - Transfer of runs 1848-1874, index


 * 1849-1861 - Lands sold 1849-1861, index.
 * 1860-1911 - Rents payable on pastoral runs 1860-1911, index.
 * 1861-1874 - Queensland Land Orders 1861-1874 at FindMyPast, Index ($)
 * 1861-1868 - Register of lands 1861-1868, index.
 * 1863-1880 - Pastoral holdings 1863-1880, index.
 * 1865-1866 - Land orders 1865-1866,index.
 * 1868-1885 - Applications by selectors 1868-1885, index.
 * 1885-1908 - Lessees of agricultural and Grazing Farms 1885-1908, index.
 * 1917-1929 - Soldier Settlement ledgers 1917 to 1929, index.

Research Guides

 * Government Building Records
 * History of Your House
 * Land Codes
 * Maps including cadastral maps, topographic maps, survey plans and thematic maps]


 * Soldier Settlement
 * Alienation and sale of Crown lands
 * Land tenure records
 * Land Agent Records
 * Special leases
 * Occupational licence records
 * 1855-- - Land agents’ records
 * 1866-1918 - Town Commons files from 1866 to 1918
 * 1868-- - Land exchanges and commonwealth acquisitions from 1868

Archive Resources Kit, New South Wales Including Queensland Prior to 1851

 * Archive Resources Kit
 * Registers of depasturing licences, 1837-51
 * Indexes to land grants, 1788-1865, and selected registers

"The ARK is held by 40 community access points across NSW. The majority of access points are libraries. The ARK consists of microfilm copies of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. Included are records relating to convict arrivals, assisted immigrants, births, deaths and marriages, publicans' licences, electoral rolls, naturalisation, returns of the colony ('Blue Books'), land grants, and the wide range of functions of the Colonial Secretary (1788-1825). You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."
 * Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold microcopies of the Archive Resource Kit records

Soldier Settlement

 * Soldier settlement, also known as the Soldier Settlement Scheme or Soldiers Settlement Scheme, administered by the Soldier Settlement Commission, was the settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under schemes administered by the state governments after World War I and World War II.
 * By 1924, 23.2 million acres (93,900 km²) had been allotted 23,367 farms across Australia.
 * Other than supporting soldiers and sailors that were returning from those wars, the various governments also saw the opportunity of attracting both Australians and specific groups of allied service personnel to some of the otherwise little inhabited, remote areas of Australia.
 * The states took responsibility for land settlement and thus enacted separate soldier settlement schemes.
 * In addition to soldiers, nurses and female relatives of deceased soldiers were also able to apply for the scheme.
 * The procedure of supporting such soldiers was repeated after World War II with all Australian state governments.