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Annie Fisher was born on March 22, 1883 in Glassendock, Lancashire, England to Annie Houghton and Thomas Fisher. Annie married a Mr. Penningrath and had two children with him, Annie Penningrath (1908) and Ernest Penningrath (1910). The three immigrated to Canada in 1910. Annie was widowed before she married Peter Prytherch on June 19, 1916 at the parsonage at Milner, Langley. The couple had three children: Dorothy (1915), Samuel (1920), and Olive (1924). Annie's husband Peter passed away on September 18, 1955, and Annie passed away on September 6, 1968.

Peter Prytherch was born on November 9, 1876, in Tunshill, Staffordshire, England. He had a cab proprietorship business at 10 Poplar Rd., Wrexham. He worked as a ship steward and waiter from about 1905 until 1909. He came to Canada from England in 1904, settling in Langley in about 1910. He married a woman named Annie Penningrath on June 19th, 1916. He had served in the Boer War, and served with the Canadian Engineers in the First World War. He returned to Langley in 1919, but decided in the late 1920s to stop farming; at this time he established a shoe repair business in Langley Prairie. He retired from this work in 1947, leaving it to his son Samuel to run. He was active in Langley's May Day, celebrations, Fall Fair celebrations, organizing many municipal picnics, the Canadian Veterans Association, and the Royal Canadian Legion. He died on September 18, 1955.