Barbara Minchinton is an independent researcher having completed her PhD on the history of settlement in the Otways under the nineteenth century land acts. Since 2011 she has been working with archaeologists on the family histories of people living on the sites excavated during the Little Lon archaeological projects of 1988-1989 and 2002-2004.

Author email: bminch@netspace.net.au

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