Plaque about John Thorpe on the Rockingham Waterfront Pioneer Rotary Walk in Rockingham, Western Australia. It reads, "Born in WA in 1832, John married Mary Ann Barry, one of those sent in 1853 to boost the labour force and provide wives for single men. They farmed at 'The Pines', East Rockingham. A member of the first Rockingham Road Board in 1897-1898 and on the Board of Management of the Commonage in 1879."