An illegitimate son of Sarah Wardle (then just 17) and William Johnson (then aged 20), born at "Moor" and baptised at Breedon as William Johnson Wardle on 21 Apr 1805. Looking at the map, this was most likely Coleorton Moor (just to the south of Coleorton centre) or alternatively Gelsmoor (just to the north of Coleorton centre). Both of these would tie in with the location of the birth of most of William Johnson and Sarah Wardle's children, born at Coleorton or Newbold-Worthington.
Following his parents' marriage a year later on 22 Sep 1806, the name Wardle was dropped, to be resurrected in the 1850s by his son William Johnson (b1834), who subsequently became known as William Wardell Johnson. After emigration to Australia in 1869, the name became hypenated, apparently around 1874, and he became known as William Wardell-Johnson. To this day, all his descendants have this double-barrelled surname.
William Johnson married Jane Bowles 1 Sep 1823 at Breedon.
Children: John Johnson (b 17 Oct 1824 at Worthington; d approx 1845); (Benjamin) Laban (b 20 Apr 1828 at Thringstone/Coleorton; bp 8 Jun 1828 at Griffydam; d 1901); Sarah Johnson (b28 Jul 1830 at Worthington; d1913 Leicester?); William Wardell (b 28 Mar 1834 at Coleorton; d 11 Jun 1898 at Albany, West Australia); Albert Bromley (b 27 Jun 1836; d 18 Jan 1918 Blandford Dorset); Theodore Johnson (b20 Jun 1849 at Pinner, Middx; d 29 Dec 1923 at East Sussex);
Married Sarah Sewell 10 Sep 1862 at Harrow Weald.
Died 24 Jan 1867 at Harrow Weald, buried 31 Jan 1867 at Harrow.