The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1871 Rotherfield Census (including Crowborough)
Reference RG10/1050: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 6
Part of the Parish of Rotherfield commencing at Mr Kings Shop at Frogs Hole taking the Cottages to Jarvis Brook to the Crossways at Coldharbour keeping the North side of the Road to Crowboro Cross then take the Road to the White Hart and Frogs Hole including the Railway Station, Hotel, Towners Hill, Beeches, White Hart, Chapel, Roundabouts, Blacknest and Cock Mount Cottages.
Enumerator: William Wickens.
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

21Railway Station HotelSaml Hemsley, M, Head, married, age 26, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: innkeeper
    Kate H Hemsley, F, Wife, married, age 23, born Great Parndon, Essex
    Mary Crowhurst, F, Servant, single, age 20, born Hartfield, Sussex; occupation: general servant
    Earnest Trussell, M, Brother, single, age 19, born Parndon, Essex; occupation: ostler
    William Strong, M, Lodger, married, age 36, born Worthing, Sussex; occupation: painter journeyman
    John Godley, M, Lodger, widowed, age 59, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: innkeeper

21Railway StationChristopher Olliver, M, Head, married, age 26, born Goring, Sussex; occupation: railway porter
    Rhoda Olliver, F, Wife, married, age 24, born Balcombe, Sussex
    Christopher Olliver, M, Son, age 11m, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    George Turner, M, Lodger, single, age 17, born Bexhill, Sussex; occupation: railway clerk
    George Packham, M, Lodger, single, age 22, born Cuckfield, Sussex; occupation: railway porter

21Railway StationHenry Pegden, M, Head, married, age 34, born Barcombe, Sussex; occupation: railway platelayer
    Jane Pegden, F, Wife, married, age 34, born Barcombe, Sussex
    Stephen Pegden, M, Son, age 12, born Uckfield, Sussex; occupation: grocer's errand boy
    Elizabeth Pegden, F, Daughter, age 9, born Uckfield, Sussex
    William Pegden, M, Son, age 7, born Plumpton, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Eadeth Pegden, F, Daughter, age 5, born Lewes, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    George Pegden, M, Son, age 2, born Lewes, Sussex
    Mary Ann Pegden, F, Daughter, age 11m, born Buxted, Sussex

21Railway StationHerbert Norman, M, Head, single, age 24, born London; occupation: railway station master
    Fanny Phillips, F, Housekeeper, married, age 23, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: housekeeper
    George Phillips, M, [Housekeeper's] husband, married, age 33, born Barcombe, Sussex; occupation: railway squinter

21Mount PleasantAlfred Medhurst, M, Head, married, age 25, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm carter
    Jemima Medhurst, F, Wife, married, age 23, born Ticehurst, Sussex
    Alfred Medhurst, M, Son, age 1, born Ticehurst, Sussex
    David Medhurst, M, Son, age 8m, born Mayfield, Sussex

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