Kathleen Kaye is a resident of Esquimalt, B.C. and a volunteer with Esquimalt Municipal Archives. Also known as Katie Kaye or Katie Kay.
William Robert Nunn was born in Esquimalt, B.C., Mar. 3, 1904. He was educated in Esquimalt and was a merchant seaman from 1920 to 1939. After service in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, he worked for the Canadian Post Office from 1945 to 1969. Married July 1936 to May Alda and had three children, Eleanor May (m. Reid) b. 1937, Patricia Evelyn (m. Madsen) b. 1938, Robert Albert b. 1949.
William's grandfather, Robert Henry Nunn, was born in Romford, Essex England. He was Esquimalt's Special Constable and Poundkeeper (c. 1918) and rode a horse named Buck. Buck was a surplus horse originally from Work Point Barracks and purchased by Robert Nunn in 1916.
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Frank Elston born in 1911, married Marjorie Phillips in 1934. They had 1 child, Raymond, born in 1942. Frank served in the Navy from 1936-1961. He was a B.C. Lions bus driver. The Elstons were long-time residents of Esquimalt at 1174 Hadfield Road.
Betty was born in Napanee, ON in 1929 to Arthur Moore and Audrey Neilson. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Bloomfield, Prince Edward County, ON. In 1948, she married Julien "Mac" McGrath and moved to Victoria. As a military wife, Betty lived in BC, AB, MB, NB and Germany, returning to Victoria in 1964. Betty's career spanned many years, in banking and the federal civil service.