The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1891 Mayfield Census
Reference RG12/783: District: Uckfield; Sub-District: Rotherfield; Enumeration District: No 12
Enumerator: Mr William C. Lusted
Boundary Being that part commening at Hadlow Down Church to the boundary of the parish to the Wildeness Houses. Continuing to the Nursery and to the old Turnpike Road leading from Mayfield to Lewes keeping the Old Turnpike to Croust Corner.
Contents Comprising all Cottages on the South of that and the Cottages at the Nursery also Loudwell, Spoods, Broomfields, Mayfield Flat, Dudsland, Scocoes, Coles Hall and Croust.
The Whole in the Parliamentary Division of Rye.
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  • These census records have been transcribed from images of the original census sheets. Whilst all care has been taken, the result is an interpretation of the original which is available at Local Record Offices, from The National Archives, and from ancestry.co.uk
  • Occupation has been unified (e.g. Ag Lab, Farm Lab, and many other such recordings are all displayed as Farm labourer).
  • The Sheet Number is as shown on the original document and is linked to a page showing all the entries on that Sheet (as well as entries from the following or previous sheet where the entry for the location covers more than one sheet).
  • In those instances where the Census entry is incorrect or missing and it has been possible from other sources to derive a correction, then these changes are shown inside square brackets, e.g. [Wife]

Census sheets
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Sheet    Place    Census entry

5Hadlow DownWilliam Stevens, M, Head, single, age 41, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Lucy Stevens, F, Mother, widowed, age 67, born Buxted, Sussex

5Hadlow DownJohn Maplesden, M, Head, widowed, age 87, born Ringmer, Sussex; occupation: gardener
    Ann Baker, F, Servant, widowed, age 60, born Reading, Oxfordshire; occupation: general domestic servant

5Wilderness CottageNelson Wren, M, Head, married, age 26, born Framfield, Sussex; occupation: carpenter
    Lois Wren, F, Wife, married, age 24, born Mayfield, Sussex
    John Cornwall, M, Boarder, widowed, age 58, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: general labourer
    Frank Cornwall, M, Boarder, single, age 19, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: bricklayer's labourer

5Hadlow DownJames Ashdown, M, Head, married, age 66, born Framfield, Sussex; occupation: bricklayer; handicap: deaf
    Sarah Ashdown, F, Wife, married, age 49, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Henry Ashdown, M, Son, single, age 19, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: plasterer's labourer
    James Ashdown, M, Son, age 12, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: boot maker's apprentice
    William Laplair, M, Boarder, single, age 24, born Hackney, Middlesex; occupation: living on own means
    Thomas Harrison, M, Boarder, single, age 29, born Greenwich, Kent; occupation: living on own means

5Hadlow DownElizabeth Hotherell, F, Head, married, age 58, born Mapledurham, Oxfordshire; occupation: house keeper
    Herbert J Hotherell, M, Son, single, age 18, born Clapham Park, Surrey; occupation: cabinet maker's apprentice

5Hadlow DownR Packham, M, Head, married, age 29, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: tailor
    Eliza Packham, F, Wife, married, age 28, born Ticehurst, Sussex
    William Packham, M, Son, age 7, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Charlie Packham, M, Son, age 5, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Edward Packham, M, Son, age 2, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Charlotte Packham, F, Daughter, age 5 months, born Mayfield, Sussex
    George Lambert, M, Boarder, single, age 18, born Penshurst, Sussex; occupation: grocer's assistant
    Martha Turner, F, Visitor, single, age 56, born Uckfield, Sussex; occupation: monthly nurse

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