The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1871 Rotherfield Census (including Crowborough)
Reference RG10/1050: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 3
Part of the Parish of Rotherfield commencing at the Boarshead Inn taking all the Houses on the right of the Road leading to Tunbridge Wells by the Crown turning then keeping the Boundary of the Parish to Knapp Wood then take the road to Saxonberry Hill and Greenhedges to Sprattsbottom and Cowford Bridge then turn to the right at the bottom of Hornhurst Wood to Turks over Johnsons Bridge along the bottom of Limekiln Forest to the Boarshead Inn including the Rocks, Queens Head, Hamsell, Copyhold, Brownings, Dengate Farms, Hoaths, Blackthorn hill, Redgate Mill, Newhouse, Turks, Jesters, the Earls Cottage, Boarshead Inn.
Enumerator: George Hyder.
Please note:
  • 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

13HoathsJohn Woodhams, M, Head, married, age 71, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 111 acres employing 5 labourers
    Elizabeth Woodhams, F, Wife, married, age 60, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Henry Stowe, M, Servant, single, age 25, born Oxfordshire; occupation: farm servant
    George Filtness, M, Servant, single, age 17, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm servant
    William Maskel, M, Servant, single, age 75, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm servant

13[Great] DengateWilliam Killick, M, Head, married, age 47, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 194 acres employing 9 men and 2 boys
    Eliza Killick, F, Wife, married, age 46, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Helen Killick, F, Daughter, single, age 17, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    William Killick, M, Son, age 14, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Edward Killick, M, Son, age 11, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Rosetta Woolley, F, Servant, single, age 19, born Leigh, Kent; occupation: general servant
    John A Cottingham, M, Servant, single, age 18, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm servant

13Park HouseGeorge Haines, M, Head, married, age 27, born Cambridgeshire; occupation: gamekeeper
    Naomi Haines, F, Wife, married, age 26, born Kinnersley, Herefordshire
    Harriet Ann Haines, F, Daughter, age 1, born Rotherfield, Sussex

13Parkers BarnAmos Marchant, M, Head, married, age 39, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: gamekeeper
    Frances Marchant, F, Wife, married, age 40, born Buxted, Sussex
    William Marchant, M, Son, age 10, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Frances Marchant, F, Daughter, age 9, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Mary Marchant, F, Daughter, age 7, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Tamar Marchant, F, Daughter, age 5, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Charles Marchant, M, Son, age 1, born Rotherfield, Sussex

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