What do the index books to the pre-1911 Deeds series show?

The index books shown on these web pages are the unofficial transcription of Requisition books maintained by the Registrar of Deeds between 1847-1911.

Every deed presented for registration in the period (69,218 deeds in all) was successively numbered on the day of receipt and an entry made in the Requisition Books recording the date and time of presentation. Subsequent to this the deed records were transferred to Parish specific ledgers divided into alphabetic sections drawn from the names of the Grantors or the Grantees respectively and these were recorded into the Grantor and Grantee indices. This was done to facilitate searches of the Deed Registry in the pre-electronic era. Now, these index records for these 69,218 deeds may be searched with a few clicks of the keyboard without the need to refer to the antiquated Grantor and Grantee ledgers that may still be found in the Registries building.