New South Wales, Australia, Surveyor General Field and Sketch Books, 1794-1903

Source Information

Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Surveyor General Field and Sketch Books, 1794-1903 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data:
  • New South Wales Government. Surveyors' Field Books, 1794–1860. NRS 13889, reels 2622–2628. The State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

    • © the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales and is used under licence with the permission of the State Records Authority. The State of New South Wales gives no warranty regarding the data's accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose.

    About New South Wales, Australia, Surveyor General Field and Sketch Books, 1794-1903

    This collection contains field books and sketch books kept by the Surveyor General of New South Wales, Australia. The field books cover the years 1794 to 1831. The sketch books cover 1828 to 1903. Records can include names and property descriptions.

    Sketch books contain sketches and tracings relating to towns, villages, allotments, land in dispute, street, lands for public use, and similar items. Sketches sometimes served as a basis for later maps. Field books are essentially records of surveying expeditions and provide similar details, as well a geographic features.