This story traces the ancestry of Sarah Ann Abbott of Gargrave, North Yorkshire, who married John French in the late nineteenth century.

The story reflects the great economic changes in linen production and the rise of cotton manufacturing in the dales and the consequent movement of families in search of work from rurual areas, such as Pateley Bridge and Nidderdale, to more industrial towns and villages such as like Skipton and Gargrave.

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