Sorry for coming late into this thread, but I am direct line of the William Johnsons from Bathley. William/Phoebe nee
Herrod had in the family Frederick (aka Frank) Mary, Ellen, James, Thomas and William as in your message. William became a railway engine fireman with NE Railways and travelled to
Yorkshire. In 1911 was lodger with
Danby family at
Muston, East
Yorkshire (just outside
Filey). Married/cohabited with
Maude Danby (eldest daughter)who had Wilfred
Danby Johnson (my father) who then later in 1920's moved to
Hull where William then lived (by then an engine driver with NE/LNER). John
Herrod lived for some period with his daughter in Bathley at the
Crown inn
Phil