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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.

James Skea (1889-1963) was born in Langley on December 28, 1889 to parents Elizabeth and John Skea. They had come to Canada in about 1887 and had homesteaded in Langley in 1888 on Telegraph Trail near Otter. James farmed in Langley all his life and served in Canada with the Canadian Engineers in World War I, enlisting in Vancouver on September 3, 1918 and being discharged on 30 January 1919. He married Ruth Victoria Sophia Hector on August 28, 1919. They had 3 children: Ila Ruth (19 October 1920), Rheta May (1 May 1922) and James Hector (30 August 1924). James served as a councillor of the Township of Langley in the 1930s into the 1940s and was a member of the Langley Advisory Planning Committee at the time of his death on January 5, 1963.

James Hector Skea was born Aug. 30, 1924 to parents James and Ruth Skea. He joined the Air Force in August 1943, and went to basic training in Edmonton. He was then stationed in St. Thomas, Aylmer, Fingal, Pat. Bay, and Sidney, Nova Scotia, and trained as a flight engineer. He was discharged in December 1945. He married Joyce Ivy Reagh on August 30, 1947.

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.