John (Norrie) Norris Shaddick

Taken from Barbara Sewell's book "The House of Northbourne Parkers. Pioneers of Western Australia 1830 - 1983." Norrie was educated at Mourambine. At the age of fourteen years he went sandalwooding in the Kulin Rock region. Subsequently, he drove his father's team, with supplies to the goldfields, until the Eastern Railway was constructed. He returned to his father's Mourambine property and in 1904 purchased adjacent land. After developing this, he sold out to Henry J. Brown and entered into partnership with his brother William acquiring farming land east of Popanyinning. He was a respected citizen who took an active interest in local affairs. He assisted in the erection of St Stephen's Church Nyamutin in 1914.