Sarah Johnson It appears that Sarah Johnson died between 1838 and 1841 as only Peter and his children are listed in the 1841 Census. A Sarah Johnson (aged 47) was buried in Stainton in Cleveland, 11th May 1840. Her abode was stated as South Stockton. The location and her age suggest this was Peter Johnson’s wife. An early mention of South Stockton, which later became the town centre of Thornaby, appears in Whellan’s Directory of 1859. “South Stockton. This is a suburb of the town of Stockton, with which it is connected by an elegant stone bridge, which was widened in 1858. This rapidly rising place is indebted for its foundation to the extension to Middlesborough of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (which is here carried across the Tees by a stone bridge) and the consequent stimulus given thereby to manufactures.” Stainton is a village in Middlesbrough, in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Stainton is one of the few areas within the boundaries of modern-day Middlesbrough to have been named in the Domesday Book of 1086. Indeed, it has been a settlement since pre-Saxon times, while its name reveals it to have been an area of Scandinavian residence. Stainton Church dates back to the 12th century.