Plaque about Charles Edward J.P. Parkin on the Rockingham Waterfront Pioneer Rotary Walk in Rockingham, Western Australia. It reads, "Born in 1852, Charles was employed by timber company at Rockingham and Jarrahdale. He was a Master Mariner employed as a wharfinger in charge at Rockingham. Charles was elected Chairman of the first Rockingham Road Board in 1897. He lived in a timber company house in Railway Terrace dying in 1925."