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John
Leighton
Just guessing that Mary, Henry and John Thomas are children of John by a first wife and that Arabella and Ann are also the children of John and Ann.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 559-560:
Ellis L. Wright, ...
Daniel R. Wright was born in Colchester South, on Lake Erie, April 28, 1820... On Nov. 27, 1855, he was married in Colchester South to Sarah Leighton, who was born in Amherstburg Oct. 7, 1823, and who died in April 1901, daughter of John and Ann (Posten) Leighton, natives of Liverpool, England; after coming to Canada Mr. Leighton engaged in farming. To Daniel R. Wright and wife were born the following children: Miss Emaline, living with her brother Ellis L.; Lorinda, who married Charles Knapp, now deceased, of Walkerville, and had eight children; Alfred, who died young; Lewis, who married Josephine Lipps, and has four children; Isabella, wife of Albert Simcoe, of Harrow; and Ellis L...