Crossword Puzzle - 'Land Hunger: Belfast, 1851'

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Across
  1. 2. What term described an agreement to rent land?
  2. 4. Who robbed people, banks, stagecoaches and mailmen?
  3. 5. What was the name of the robber who twice held up the mailman in Belfast?
  4. 6. Who was the Scottish squatter with a land selection of 26,000 acres?
  5. 9. What was the name of the system that allowed investors to purchase land for one pound an acre?
  6. 10. What was the King of Belfast’s other nickname?
  7. 14. What was the money raised from the special system of purchasing land for one pound an acre used to fund?
  8. 15. Who ran a business in Belfast, collected money from land sales and rent, was a Magistrate and the first Member of Parliament to represent the region?
  9. 16. What term described an illegal occupier of crown land who used it for grazing sheep beyond the prescribed limits of settlement.
  10. 18. pounds How much were the Squatter’s Licence and Mining Licence fees?
  11. 19. What term described an agreement to purchase land?
  12. 20. What mining term describes using a wooden box with a handle on one side and a ridged bottom covered with hessian cloth to sort pieces of rock?
Down
  1. 1. What mining term describes the careful washing of rocky material in a shallow metal pan?
  2. 3. Who was the whaler born in Launceston, later to become a farmer in Belfast?
  3. 7. What mining term describes the digging of a shaft up to 50 meters deep?
  4. 8. Who bought land in Port Fairy and established a town called Belfast?
  5. 11. Who was the first Lieutenant Governor of Victoria?
  6. 12. Who was the Governor of New South Wales in 1851?
  7. 13. Who was the reigning English monarch in 1851?
  8. 17. What was the name of the special kind of currency note issued by the firm Rutledge and Co that provided credit?