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From: Julie Stokes <>
Subject: Special Surveys
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:54:29 +0930

Hi all,
Here is the explanation of "Special Surveys" as written by E.A.D.
Opie:-
"Any person paying down the price of 4,000 acres of land could
demand the survey of 15,000 acres in the locality named by him in
80-acre sections, and could select any of the sections up to
4,000 acres. He was also entitled to a depasturing lease over the
unsold land for the term of three years at a low rental. "

In the same text, there is a listing :-

July 117 1839 - E. Rowland & J. Gilbert - 4000 acres - Lyndoch

Lyndoch is up on the edge of the Barossa Valley.

There is no listing for Browne, but he could very well have been
a partner with the other two at some time or other.

The information that you found, means that the person - George
Haynes, was under 21 years of age and was living/working
somewhere on the 4000 acres that Browne, Gilbert & Rowland had
surveyed. In other words, somewhere around Lyndoch. He may have
been working for them, or maybe his father worked for them, or he
may have had enough money to buy one of the surveyed 80 acre
sections - land was going for about £1 an acre - but it is
probably unlikely that a kid under 21 would have that kind of
money - so I would be looking for the rest of his family there
as well. But it is more likely that he was working there for
someone else.

JKS

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