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Ellen Jane Parry-Evans (nee Bland) married Thomas Bird Parry-Evans March 23, 1910. She died May 8, 1941 at age of 68 (therefore born approximately 1873).

Thomas Bird Parry-Evans emigrated from Colwyn Bay, North Wales to Canada. He first went to New Orleans and moved all over the United States. He owned a fish boat in Puget Sound. For three weeks, he returned back to North Wales, but settled in Langley in 1895. He stayed at the Towle Hotel in Fort Langley and subsequently purchased a house from Robert Allen Oakes. In 1910, he married Ellen Jane Bland. Mr. Parry-Evans primarily farmed and worked in the logging camps, but around 1898, he went up to the Gold Rush in the Yukon. Sam Larmon, who was a helper on the farm, probably stayed on the property during that time. In 1922, he died in an accident at the Galbraith's Logging Mills.