Stroud colonial leader finally found a place in historic church

By Scott Bevan
May 2 2019 - 6:00am
COMMEMORATING: Jane King, Jonathan King, and Anne Frost get into the spirit - and the costumes - of colonial times in Stroud.
COMMEMORATING: Jane King, Jonathan King, and Anne Frost get into the spirit - and the costumes - of colonial times in Stroud.

WHEN five sailors died after their ship, the Carrington, was smashed by a gale off Port Stephens in 1842, the local head of the Australian Agricultural Company, Phillip Parker King, had a memorial erected to them.

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