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William and Ann had a daughter called Ann in 1811.
James, my great great grandfather was born in 1813 at Wycoller and died in Burnley in 1884. He married Ellen Spencer in 1851 at Bethesda Chapel in Burnley. She was some 13 years his junior but died in 1852 after giving birth to their only child Ann. Click here to read about Ann's family with her husband James Spencer. James Scragg survived the Cotton Famine in the early 1860's by keeping a lodging house in King Street, Burnley in which his lodgers were almost all members of his family.
William's third child with his wife Ann was their daughter Sarah, born about 1815.Sarah had a son (father unknown) called William in 1838. She had a second son Jamy Whittaker in 1842. Sarah's son William Scragg was a cotton weaver, born in Colne but who was lodging with his uncle James in 1861 in Burnley. He married Mary Ann Rushton, a cotton winder from Colne.
William's fourth child with Ann Riley was their daughter Margaret, a power loom weaver born in 1818. She had a daughter Ann, born in 1842 in Colne. In 1851 she was staying with her sister, Sarah in Burnley. In 1861 she was lodging with her brother James.
Matthew, born at Crawshaw in 1820 was the youngest child of William and Ann.