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Watson family

George Watson was born in Kirriemuir Scotland in 1868. His wife Elizabeth Brodie Grant Watson bought their Saanich property at 1775 Barrie Road (Jersey Hall) in 1898 and the family moved there in 1903. They built a second house at the front of the property ca. 1910. George Watson named the house Thrums after a poem written by his cousin James Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Elizabeth Watson served as postmistress of the Gordon Head Post Office from 1905 to 1920 and was president of the Gordon Head Women’s Institute in 1925-1926. George Watson served as Reeve of Saanich from 1920 to 1923, during which time he fought for a water system to be installed in Gordon Head. He was also a Councillor, Police Commissioner and a School Trustee. George Watson died in 1930. Descendants of the Watson family continue to own and occupy Thrums.

Webb, Frederick Arthur

Frederick Arthur Webb married Eleanor Baran. They lived at 193 Burnside Road West in the Tillicum area of Saanich. Fred Webb was a driver for Vancouver Island Coach Lines in the 1940s.

Webster family

Four of William and Sarah Webster’s children, Frederick, Arthur James, Henry Charles, and Ernest Webster, as well as their son-in-law Robert Payne Ashton, served in the First World War.

Wellburn, Cyril Thomas Vernon

Cyril Thomas Vernon (Tom) Wellburn was born in 1904 in Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire. His parents brought the family to Victoria in 1910 where his father, Matthew Wellburn, started Wellburn's Grocery on Pandora at Cook Street. Tom Wellburn attended George Jay and Central Schools in Victoria and as a child learned to swim in the Gorge. He swam competitively as a member of the Victoria Amateur Swim Club (VASC) for a number of years, winning numerous medals and titles. He married Janet Evelyn (Jean) Hepburn of Victoria in 1928. Tom and Jean Wellburn had 3 children: Thomas John (Jack) Wellburn, Margaret Louise Billings and June Patricia Fletcher. Tom Wellburn's swimming medals were stolen from his home on Loenholm Road ca. 1980.

Wenman family

John and Alice Wenman came to Victoria in 1912. They bought ten acres of land in the Gordon Head area of Saanich where they grew strawberries and daffodils. They had two sons who were notable local cricketers. Their son William Reginald Gower Wenman (Reg) married Evelyn Margaret Lytton, daughter of Claude and Ethel Lytton. The family home on Wenman Drive is on the Saanich heritage inventory.

Whitehead family

Albert Harry Whitehead emigrated from Watford, England. He married Nellie Ada Ingle on September 2, 1912 in Victoria. Albert Whitehead was a house builder by trade and built many houses in the Prospect Lake area. The Whitehead family moved to Prospect Lake in 1923.

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