Edward Charles Frome
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General Edward Charles Frome was a British Army officer and Surveyor General of South Australia.
Edward Charles Frome
Maria massacre
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Maria was a brigantine of 136 tons, built in Dublin, Ireland, and launched in 1823 as a passenger ship.
Edward Charles Frome
…twelve established Aboriginal homes. It is annotated with the note "burnt by me, October 1840". This was apparently part of the retribution for the Maria massacre of shipwrecked survivors a few months earlier. In 1843 he led an expedition to the mid-north of South Australia and was the first to accurately map…
Major O'Halloran's expedition to the Coorong, August 1840