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Land Acquisition

Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant

The land granted to Colebee and Nurragingy in 1819 was one of the rare instances where the colonial government recognised Aboriginal interests in land. The site is of enduring importance for Aboriginal people who trace their traditional ancestry and social history back to this place and is part of the ongoing history of Aboriginal peoples' struggle for land rights.

Parramatta and Black Town Native Institutions

The Parramatta and Black Town Native Institutions existed from 1814 till 1829 as part of a campaign initially led by Governor Lachlan Macquarie and designed to inculcate European ideas of 'civilisation', commerce and Christianity into Aboriginal people and turn them into industrious workers.

Field of Mars Common Resumption Act 1874

Legislation enacted to enable the sale of the Field of Mars Common, which was resumed to raise finance for infrastructure.

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Housing Act 1912

Legislation to provide for the purchase of lands and construction and maintenance of buildings and works, by the Housing Board which this Act also established.

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Land for Public Purposes Acquisition Act 1880

Legislation to provide for the acquisition by the government of lands for public purposes.

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Map of the Nineteen Counties 1834

Map produced by Thomas Mitchell to depict the areas where settlers were permitted to take up land. Despite this settlers often went beyond the boundaries and leases were eventually recognised in these areas in 1847.

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Real Property Act 1862

Legislation based on registration of the land itself in a single register so that it was no longer necessary to prove ownership back to the original grant.

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The Glebe Lands (Apppropriation) Act 1974

Federal legislation championed by Tom Uren, Minister for Urban and Rural Development and passed by the Whitlam government, to enable the purchase and transfer of housing from church to state. It thereby allowed the preservation of the townscape and the opportunity for low income earners and families to stay close to the city.

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Voluntary Workers (Soldiers' Holdings) Act 1917

Act to enable the Voluntary Workers Association to create a model garden village at Matraville for disabled servicemen and war widows.

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Indigenous Land Corporation

Commonwealth government corporation which provides assistance to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders to acquire and manage land.

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Land Titles Office

Agency established as part of the Registrar General's Department in 1857 to register all details of land title. From 1985 until 2000 it functioned independently before becoming part of Land and Property Information New South Wales.

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Land and Property Information New South Wales

Agency formed in 2000 to provide land, property and valuation information and services that were previously provided by the Land Titles Office, the Surveyor General's Department and the Valuer General's Department.

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Landcom

Government-owned corporation originally formed to provide affordable land for purchase and operated in the manner of a private property developer since its corporatisation in 2002.

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Metropolitan Aboriginal Association Inc

Subsidiary of the Indigenous Land Corporation.

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Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council

Council established by legislation to acquire and manage land, and to protect the cultural heritage interests of Aboriginal people in the Sydney metropolitan area.

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Redfern-Waterloo Authority

Authority created by legislation in 2004 to revitalise Redfern, Waterloo, Eveleigh and Darlington through urban renewal, improved human services and job creation.

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Registrar-General's Office

Agency established in 1844 to register details of wills, real property, and births, deaths and marriages. The composition and role of the agency has changed many times including the name, which became the Land Titles Office in 1985.

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Returned Soldiers Settlement Scheme

Scheme established by legislation in New South Wales in 1916 to enable Crown Land be made available to returned servicemen for farming and settlement.

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Sydney Church of England Cemetery Company

Company formed by members of Sydney's Church of England in 1848 to purchase land and establish Camperdown Cemetery.

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Sydney Harbour Federation Trust

Statutory body established to manage former Defence and other Commonwealth lands on Sydney Harbour.

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Villawood Land and Investment Company

Development company in Villawood before World War II.

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Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 1

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Transcript: To His Excellency Lieut. General Darling, Governor on Chief of New South Wales and its Dependencies.

The Petition of Maria Lock, an Aboriginal Native of New South Wales. Humbly Sheweth

-That on the first establishment of the Native Institution by His Excellency Governor Macquarie, your Petitioner, then a Child, was Placed there by her father the Chief of the Richmond Tribes.

-That Petitioner continued in the School Till she was married to Robert Lock, with whom She has ever since lived, and by whom she has had Two Children.

-That at the time they were married your Petitioner was promised a small Grant of Land, And a Cow as a Marriage Portion.

-That she has since received a Cow, which Has increased to five head, but has never Received any Land.

By

Maria Lock

Contributed By

State Archives & Records New South Wales

[NRS 907 2/7908, page 1 of 3]

Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 2

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Transcript: - That Governor Macquarie gave her Brother Coley a small Grant of Land at Black Town; and as her Brother is now dead, your Petitioner humbly prays that this Grant may be transferred to her, and her Children, or that a small portion of the land adjoining be given to her, whereby she and her Husband may be enabled to feed their Cattle, now Seven in number, earn an honest livelihood, and provide a comfortable home for themselves, and their increasing family.

And your Petitioner shall, as in duty bound, ever pray &c &c &c

Maria Lock

Liverpool March 3rd 1831

I beg leave to state, for the information of His Excellency The Governor, that I have known Petitioner from a Child - and more particularly since she was married - having in consequence of her exemplary conduct, allowed her and her husband for several years past, to reside upon my farm - I believe her own written statement to be strictly correct; and I feel great pleasure in recommending Petitioner to His Excellency's most favourable consideration,

Robt Cartwright Senr Chaplain

The Petitioner was in the Native Institution when I as the Secretary & was Married from it. And as she has proved that the instruction she received was not lost from her, I beg to recommend her to the kind consideration of His Excellency The Governor.

Richard Hill Esq

By

Maria Lock

Contributed By

State Archives & Records New South Wales

[NRS 907 2/7908, page 2 of 3]

Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 3

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By

Maria Lock

Contributed By

State Archives & Records New South Wales

[NRS 907 2/7908, page 3 of 3]