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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.

Samuel was born February 21, 1920 to parents Peter and Annie Prytherch. He served in the Second World War and joined his father in the shoe repair business in Langley Prairie in 1946. His father retired the following year. Sam married Doris Margaret Glegg, who's family owned the Highway Cafe (now Langley Hotel) on December 7, 1946. They had two daughters, Linda and Shirley. He continued to operate the family business as Langley Boot and Shoe Repair, and later as Sam's Shoe Repairs, until retiring in 1982. His wife Doris passed away on January 13, 2001, and Sam passed away the following year on August 21, 2002.
Source: From Prairie to City: A History of the City of Langley by Warren Sommer