1911 Census - George Johnson George and Jane Johnson had moved to a shop on the new Grange Estate housing development. George Johnson, Head, 73, shopkeeper grocer, b Hutton Rudby Jane Elizabeth Johnson, wife, 62, b Osmotherley George Ernest Johnson, son, 22, single, b Stockton The census indicates the marriage has lasted 44 years and that there had been 10 children born alive, 5 of whom were still alive in 1911. So far I have only identified 9 of their children. Birth Death George William Q1 1871 1873 (aged 1-2) John Thomas 6 Nov 1873 1961 (aged 87-88) Robert 3 Feb 1876 13 Feb 1876 (aged 10 days) James 4 Feb 1876 5 Feb 1876 (aged 0 days) Mary Elizabeth 4 Aug 1877 1959 (aged 81-82) Edith Amelia Q1 1881 Feb 1883 (aged 1-2) Arthur 28 Aug 1883 Dec 1974 (aged 91) Robert 31 Oct 1885 17 May 1969 (aged 83) George Ernest 11 Jan 1889 4 Jun 1913 (aged 24) George Johnson left the shop at Ropner Terrace to be run by his son John Thomas Johnson. In the mean-time (1909) Robert Johnson had got married to Elizabeth Ann Rowland in Marsden, West Yorkshire.
1911 Census : George Johnson - 28 Grange Avenue, Stockton-on-Tees 1911 Census : John T Johnson - 1 Ropner Terrace
There are several candidates for the other child but a search for births in Stockton in the appropriate era for children with a father named Johnson and mother’s maiden name Wilkinson throws up too many. There was, for example, a Robert Johnson who married Isabella Wilkinson in 1858 and lived in Middlesbrough (which was in the Stockton registration area). They had a large number of children.