Hi and Happy New Year to you all, Lets hope 2009 is the year of the Missing Ancestor :-)) I have a land order number, and I would like to trace the owner... Is there any way that I can do this...?? The land order number is No. 2950.. Is there any explanation online explanation on how Landorders work?? It is owned by a person who has the same name as one of Ancestors... There are several people by the same name living in the same area...and it would be very easy to mistake one of these people as my ancestor, when the opposite might be true.. I'd be very grateful to be able to put this puzzle to rest... Thanks and Happy New Year Gay

The following was extracted from the Qld Public Records Historical Resource Kit - Part 1: LAND ORDER A land order was legal tender for the selection or purchase at auction of land made available under the various Queensland Land Acts in the nineteenth century. IT WAS NOT AN ORDER FOR A PARTICULAR PIECE OF LAND. Therefore it is not possible to find out from land order records the locality or real property description of the piece of land selected or purchased by a particular person. The scheme was designed as a means of inducing immigrants to settle in Queensland. The conditions under which they were issued changed substantially over time with changes to the relevant legislation. In general, they were available to persons paying their own passage in full, or to persons (such as shipping agents) paying the passage in full for someone else. At certain times and under certain conditions, they were also granted to the following categories of persons: nominated or remittance passengers; persons nominating immigrants; indentured passengers; employers contracting indentured passengers, and assisted passengers. The value of the land orders varied. In some cases, a first land order was convertible immediately after arrival and a second land order available after a period of residence in Queensland. Records of land orders issued usually give name of immigrant, name of person to whom the land order was issued, and in some cases details of the ship and date of arrival. DETAILS OF THE LAND PURCHASED OR SELECTED USING THE LAND ORDER ARE NOT GIVEN. A land order acts as evidence that a particular immigrant was resident in Queensland on a particular date. The records relating to land orders are not included in Part 1 of the Historical Resource Kit. Researchers wishing to examine these records will have to visit the Archives Public Search Room. Happy New Year to all Janet Hervey Bay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gay Fielding" <gayze@tpg.com.au> To: <aus-qld@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 9:20 AM Subject: [AUS-QLD] Tracing a Land Order Number > Hi and Happy New Year to you all, > Lets hope 2009 is the year of the Missing Ancestor :-)) > > I have a land order number, and I would like to trace the owner... Is > there > any way that I can do this...?? > The land order number is No. 2950.. > Is there any explanation online explanation on how Landorders work?? > > It is owned by a person who has the same name as one of Ancestors... > There are several people by the same name living in the same area...and it > would be very easy to mistake one of these people as my ancestor, when the > opposite might be true.. > I'd be very grateful to be able to put this puzzle to rest... > Thanks and Happy New Year > Gay > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >