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The Skea family emigrated to Langley from the Orkney Islands in May 1888. Their first son, James (Jim), was born December 28, 1889, on the family's homestead on Telegraph Trail in Coghlan.

Catharine (or Cathrine) Ann Skea was the first child born to parents John and Elizabeth Skea in 1887, in Scotland. She emigrated to Canada with her parents when she was 17 months old. Catharine married Clifford M. Pearson in Langley on October 11, 1911. They had three children: a boy who died at nineteen; Harold; and Lorna (married to Cecil Shaw). Mr. and Mrs. Pearson ran a general store in Sardis, which they opened in 1919. In 1945 the general store was taken over by Lorna and her husband, and Mr. Pearson and son Harold began a hardware store in 1950.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-334/1105)

Elizabeth Reid Skea (née Scollay), born in April 1863, married John Skea. They had come to Canada in about 1887 and had homesteaded in Langley in 1888 on Telegraph Trail near Otter. Elizabeth was a school teacher in Langley. Elizabeth and John had 6 children: Cathrine Ann (b. 1887), James (b. 1889), Elizabeth Reid (b. 1891), John Scollay (b. 1894), Rhoda Violet (b. 1898), Jane Cooper (b. 1901), and David Reid (b. 1903). Elizabeth died in Langley on November 3, 1945, at the age of 82.
Term Source: HPC Records (SKEA-1/755)

John Skea was born January 30 1863, in the Orkney Isles. He married Elizabeth Scollay (b. April 1863) in 1885 in the Orkney Isles. They had come to Canada in about 1887 and had homesteaded in Langley in 1888 on Telegraph Trail near Otter. They had seven children: Cathrine (Kate) Ann (b. 1887 in Scotland), James (b. 1889), Elizabeth (Beth) Reid (b. 1891), John (Jack) Scollay (b. 1894), Rhoda Violet (b. 1898), Jane (Daisy?) Cooper (b. 1901), and David Reid (b. 1903). John died in Langley on April 29, 1949, at the age of 87.

John (Jack) Scollay Skea was born in Langley on March 30, 1894 to parents John and Elizabeth Skea. He was born on the family's farm on Telegraph Trail. He married Elsie on November 9, 1916, who he had met at a basketball game in Milner earlier that same year. Jack was a carpenter by trade but had also dairy farmed and was a member of the FVMPA. Jack was an honorary member of the Buttons'n'Bows square dance club and was an active member of the Otter Farmers' Institute. He and Elsie had three children, Joan, Butler and Frank (d. 1958). Jack died in Murrayville on August 24, 1974 at the age of 80.