Peter Johnson married Mary Thompson in Holy Trinity Church, Stockton-on-Tees, on 8 Oct 1843. She was the daughter of William Thompson and, according to later censuses, was born in 1813 in Marton, Yorkshire. Mary was twenty years younger than Peter. In the 1820s Marton was described as a parish in the wapentake and liberty of Langbargh; 7 miles N. of Stokesley. A village ever rendered important by being the birthplace of the great navigator Captain James Cook. Marton is now a dormitory suburb of Middlesbrough due to extensive building in the 1950s onwards. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the parish of Marton originally extended down to the River Tees, but with the expansion of Middlesbrough, the parish became progressively smaller. Peter and Mary had a daughter, Jane, in early 1845. Later censuses give her birth-place as Egglescliffe and Yarm. Egglescliffe is a village which sits on top of a hill overlooking and across the River Tees from Yarm. Jane Johnson underwent a private baptism in Egglescliffe on 28 May 1845. Peter was described at this time as a labourer. 1851 Census - Peter Johnson - George Johnson Peter Johnson 57 Head Agricultural Labourer Houghton, Durham Mary Johnson 37 Wife Marton, Yorkshire George Johnson 13 Son Railway Labourer Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire Jane Johnson 5 Daughter Egglescliffe, Yorkshire Anthony Wild 32 Lodger Ag Labourer Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire, There are no addresses given for households in Yarm on the census pages. Peter Johnson gives his birth-place as Houghton which is likely to be Haughton-le-Skerne which is very close to Low Dinsdale.