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Field name | Value |
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Title | Cape of Good Hope Land Returns |
Date | 1841-1845 |
Document Type | Legal Papers |
Reference | CO 48/259 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Cape of Good Hope Colony (Cape Colony), Original Correspondence |
Description | Land and immigration returns for the Cape Colony, comprising records of migrants to the colony, surveying staff employed, land under lease, land grants, land sales and the use of Crown Land. Contains extensive manuscript notes regarding Crown Lands for the period covered. |
Series Description | This series consists of original correspondence relating to Cape of Good Hope, later Cape Colony. Included are reports and papers of the Commissioners of Eastern Inquiry, 1825 to 1834. |
Biographical Note / History | After some dispute as to ownership of the Cape of Good Hope between colonial powers, the territory was recaptured by the British in 1806 and formally became a British colony in 1814. In 1910 Cape Colony became a province of the new Union of South Africa. |
Theme(s) | Politics, Legislation and Governance; Remigration |
Country (from) | Great Britain; Australia; Uruguay |
Country (to) | South Africa |
Places | Cape of Good Hope, South Africa |
Ports | Montevideo, Uruguay; Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia |
Nationality | English; European |
Keywords | land, land sale, land price, land grant, agriculture, farming, labour, labourer, surveying, town planning, female emigration, emigration, child migration, remigration, shipping |
Language | English |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |