The family consisted of husband and wife and two sons.

The head of the house, Angus Ray, came to the district early in life from the extreme Cumbrian border.

He was hardly less than a giant in stature.

He had limbs of great length, and muscles like the gnarled heads of a beech.

Upon settling at Wythburn, he speedily acquired property of various kinds, and in the course of a few years he was the largest owner of sheep on the country side.