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From: "Olive Tree Genealogy" <>
Subject: Re: [UPP-CAN] Upper Canada Land Grants
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:48:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20060125012507.IZBM1595.tomts46-srv.bellnexxia.net@[209.226.175.82]>


On 24 Jan 2006 at 20:25, wrote:


> I have an ancestor who received his patent in the 1860s but
> the Ontario Land Records Index shows he transferred half his
> property to a brother in the 1850s. I've been told this
> meant he was a 'nominee' who could use the land until he had
> met the conditions for settlement, after which he could
> obtain his patent.
>
> I have looked through the Upper Canada Land Petitions,
> Petitions for Land, Township Papers and Assignments (RG1
> 53-2) without finding his name.
>
> Aside from Orders in Council or surveyor records does anyone
> know of another source for finding where someone was granted
> the right to settle on crown land? This was not one of the
> Talbot grants.


The CLRI (Ontario Land Records Index) cateogorizes entries
as:

Name of Locatee; Residence; Township/Town/City; Lot/ Conc/
Date I.D.; Issue Date; Transaction Type; Type FG (Free
Grant); Type of Lease/Sale' Archival Reference (RG, Series,
Volume, Page #)

This is very helpful as the Date ID can lead you to other
sources - for eg. a Date ID of 8 means that an OC (Order in
Council) was given and this means a petition or petitions
are on file for the individual. These petitions are often a
wealth of information!

The Archival Reference leads you to the original entry from
which the CLRI was made - sometimes this has a great deal
more information, often it does not.

Type of FG (Free Grant) can be helpful - was it M
(Military), or UE (Loyalist) or SE (Scotch Emigrant) or
..... (there are many types of Free Grants, each has its
own
avenue of research.

You can read more about land and about the CLRI on my pages
at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/land.shtml

and

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/clri.shtml



Armed with the lot and conc # you can check the
Abstract Indexes to Deeds for that piece of property

Have you tried that? Did the date ID for the CLRI have
anything useful?

Did you try the original Archival Reference? Sometimes it
has extra 'comments' so it's always worth checking. I have
links to conversion tables online to convert the Arch. Ref
to a Microfilm Reel.

Lorine


-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

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