John Wright and I share common great grandparents. John and Mary Johnson nee Wright. They ran a farm on Cockle Dick’s Lane in Marshside, near to Hesketh Golf Club. Like many old villagers John Johnson went out with a shrimp net when the opportunity and need arose.

These Johnsons were known by a nickname, they were called “Slender” and “Slenders Brow" where they (and others) lived, was on Shellfield Road where numbers 3 & 5 are now.

Often the Johnsons married the Wrights and on at least one occasion in my tree the Wrights married the Wrights. Of John and Mary’s daughters, three of the four married a Wright. My own branch stayed in Marshside but John’s (My "cousin") went off to St Annes, and until recently we did not know of the others existence.

Although I can trace back to John Johnson 1755 – 1837 who married Martha Harrison 1759 – 1830, I have had difficulty in getting the link from their son John to our great great grandfather William.

John Johnson and Martha Harrison produced:

Richard Johnson 1793 who married Ann Twist.

Ellen Johnson 1789 who married John Threlfall.

Thomas Johnson 1791 who married Alice Wright.

John Johnson 1793 ( not sure who he married)

Isabella Johnson1796 who married John Blundell.

Jane Johnson 1800 who married James Kellet .& Elizabeth Johnson 1806.

John Johnson was the father of William Johnson.

William  baptised 1820 married Isabella Rimmer, they produced:

John Johnson 1846 – 1906 who later married Mary Wright.

Margaret Johnson 1849.

Richard Johnson 1949.

Betty (Elizabeth) Johnson 1851.

Nelly Johnson 1853.

Ann Johnson 1855.

Isabella Johnson. 1858.

William Johnson 1859.

Martha Johnson 1861.

Thomas Johnson 1863.

John Johnson and Mary Wright were married in 1869 and produced:

Betty Johnson 1872 later married William Wright.

William Johnson 1870

Ann Johnson 1870 – 1952 married Robert Ball

Isabella Johnson 1874 – 1935 who later married John Wright

Richard Johnson 1876

Nelly Johnson 1880 – 1960 married Joseph Wright. ( This is John’s line)

Isabella Johnson and John Wright produced:             

Thomas Wright.1895                 

Mary Wright 1908 – 1993

Mary Wright married Andrew Makinson 1902 - 1993, they produced :

David John Makinson 1937 married Diana Hindley

Nadine Makinson 1938 married John Moffatt and produced:

Rosalind Mary Moffatt 1964

Catherine Angharad Moffatt 1972