Victoria Land and Property

Historical Plans
Clicking on the above link will take you straight to the Historical Plans page of The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment website. The Department holds a collection of historical plans relating to the first 60 years of European settlement in Victoria which are available at a cost from the Land Information Centre at:

Land Victoria Level 9, 570 Bourke St Melbourne 3000 Victoria, Australia Phone: (+61 3) 8636 2831 Opening hours: 8.30am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday

The collection includes 8000 plans dating from 1837 and covers all parts of Victoria.

Online Resources

 * Crown Land Licences Victoria 1852-1853 Index ($)
 * Land Tax Register & Valuation Victoria Index ($)

New South Wales Archive Resources Kit, Including Records for Areas now in Victoria
"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).
 * Archive Resources Kit
 * Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold microcopies of the Archive Resource Kit records A list of libraries and archives which hold microcopies of the Archive Resource Kit records

"The ARK was a result of our Access for All initiative to provide people in regional and rural NSW with better access to the State's archives. The Kit contains over 1565 items (962 fiche and 604 reels) of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. It builds on a genealogical research kit issued in the 1980s and already held by some of the community access points. The Kit includes explanatory material and links to information available on our website.

"You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."