The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1861 Mayfield Census
Reference RG9/574: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 14
Part of the Parish of Mayfield commencing at the Lower House Garden to Wellbrook including the six Cottages at Miss then to Butcher's Cross Gate and Mr Thos Bridgers taking the road that leads to Mr Richard Marchants keeping the boundary of the Parish to Stile House then take the road that leads to the Furnace crossing the Fields at the back of the Old Palace to the Lower House Garden and thence to School house near Stonecross including Argos Hill, Hoadleys, Horleigh Green, Pages, Downford, Hutchings, Twitts, Freemans, the Cottages at Woolbridge and No Mans Hole also Trodgers Farm
Enumerator: George Holden
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]
 
Sheet    Place    Census entry
1GroveWilliam Williams, M, Head, widowed, age 64, born Ratcliffe, Middlesex; occupation: annuitant of Trinity House with land and funded property
1MissJames Haffenden, M, Head, married, age 50, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
1MissRuth Jarrett, F, Head, widowed, age 44, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: needle woman
1MissJohn Heathfield, M, Head, married, age 57, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
1MissJames Turner, M, Head, married, age 62, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
1MissThomas Pollington, M, Head, married, age 60, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: master gardener
2MissJesse Godden, M, Head, married, age 33, born Battle, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
2MissSamuel Parkes, M, Head, married, age 41, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
2DownfoordWilliam Buss, M, Head, married, age 30, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 42 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy
3PagesThomas Bridger, M, Head, married, age 55, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 42 acres employing 24men and 1 boy
3WoolbridgeWilliam Frost, M, Head, married, age 54, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 13 acres
3Woolbridge CottageSamuel Bailey, M, Head, married, age 54, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
3Woolbridge CottageJohn (Jr) Page, M, Head, married, age 46, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
3Woolbridge CottageRichard Parkes, M, Head, married, age 67, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
4HutchingsDaniel Duly, M, Head, married, age 46, born Herstmonceux, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 140 acres employing 3 men and 1 boy
4WellbrookStephen Wratten, M, Head, married, age 41, born Herstmonceux, Sussex; occupation: carter
4CrabbJabez Kine, M, Head, married, age 28, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 128 acres employing 4 men and 2 boys
5Mount PleasantJohn James Rees, M, Head, married, age 48, born London, Middlesex; occupation: landed proprietor
5Little CowdenPhiladelphia Hiland, F, Head, widowed, age 45, born Ewhurst, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer's widow and pauper
5CowdensGeorge Groombridge, M, Head, married, age 45, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 75 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy
5Butchers CrossEdgar Jarvis, M, Head, married, age 37, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: master blacksmith employing 2 men
5Butchers CrossHenry Beale, M, Head, married, age 35, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: thatcher
6Butchers CrossJames Hallett, M, Head, widowed, age 64, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 20 acres employing 1 man and tunpike toll collector
6HomestallsJohn Bridger, M, Head, married, age 66, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 12 acres, tax assessor and bailiff of the Manor of Mayfield
6TwittsJohn Russell, M, Head, married, age 40, born Burwash, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 117 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy
7Horleigh GreenThomas Bridger, M, Head, single, age 62, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 112 acres employing 3 men
7Little TwittsThomas Pattenden, M, Head, married, age 33, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
7Little TwittsGeorge Bailey, M, Head, married, age 60, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
7Stone LodgeSarah Gorringe, F, Head, widowed, age 76, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: former trug maker
7Stone LodgeHenry Hesmer, M, Head, married, age 31, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
8CottageEdward Gorringe, M, Head, married, age 27, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
8CottageJames Manklelow, M, Head, married, age 52, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: huckster
8FreemansGeorge Edwards, M, Head, married, age 57, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 245 acres employing 9 men and 6 boys, also valuer of land, timber and dilapidations
8StreeleRichard Marchant, M, Head, married, age 26, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 190 acres employing 6 men and 2 boys
8No Mans HoleWilliam Dadswell, M, Head, married, age 51, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
8No Mans HoleJesse Gadd, M, Head, widowed, age 64, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: lathe cleaver
9No Mans HoleAlfred Moon, M, Head, married, age 30, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
9No Mans HoleThomas A Bourne, M, Head, married, age 27, born Hellingly, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
9No Mans HoleEdward Tapsell, M, Head, married, age 29, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
9Ordnance PlaceJohn Hartfield, M, Head, married, age 40, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: flour seller
9No Mans HoleEli Humphrey, M, Head, married, age 37, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10No Mans HoleWilliam Bones, M, Head, married, age 28, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10No Mans Hole BrookWilliam Wickenden, M, Head, married, age 57, born Lamberhurst, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 26 acres employing 1 boy
10No Mans HoleSarah Lade, F, Head, widowed, age 72, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: nurse
10No Mans HoleObed Dadswell, M, Head, married, age 48, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10No Mans HoleThomas Ovenden, M, Head, single, age 24, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10Salters GreenRobert Cornford, M, Head, married, age 53, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 130 acres employing 1 man and 1 boy
11Argos HillGeorge Avis, M, Head, married, age 29, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
11Argos HillDavid Pollington, M, Head, widowed, age 47, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
11Argos HillGeorge Hope, M, Head, married, age 25, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
11Argos HillAmos Frost, M, Head, married, age 32, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: trug maker
11Argos HillAaron Weston, M, Head, married, age 37, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: master miller
12Argos HillObed Cole, M, Head, widowed, age 51, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
12Argos HillWilliam Hills, M, Head, married, age 34, born Horsham, Sussex; occupation: farmer out of business
12SpitlyeThomas Clifford, M, Head, single, age 30, born Maidstone, Kent; occupation: farmer of 100 acres employing 1 labourer and 1 boy
12Trulls HatchJames Wright, M, Head, married, age 28, born Little Thurlow, Suffolk; occupation: gamekeeper
12TrodgersRichard Pratt, M, Head, married, age 83, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 328 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy
13Trodgers CottageHenry Hobden, M, Head, married, age 35, born Portslade, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
13Trodgers CottageWilliam Frost, M, Head, married, age 29, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
13WallaceJohn Bassett, M, Head, married, age 63, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 36 acres
13Little SpitlyeJesse Pratt, M, Head, widowed, age 66, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 40 acres
14Little WallaceCharles Fenner, M, Head, married, age 37, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 13 acres
14HoadleysSeptimus P Graves, M, Head, single, age 23, born Southam, Warwickshire; occupation: farmer of 193 acres employing 4 men and 2 boys
14Hoadleys CottageRichard Kemp, M, Head, married, age 43, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: cordwainer
14Hoadleys CottageHenry Ed Reed, M, Head, married, age 29, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
14CottageJohn Hall, M, Head, married, age 71, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: rat catcher
14CottageRobert Baldock, M, Head, widowed, age 72, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
14CottageWilliam Baldock, M, Head, married, age 25, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
15CottageWilliam Hall, M, Head, married, age 62, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
15EllisJoseph Groombridge, M, Head, married, age 41, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 60 acres employing 1 man and 1 boy
15Argos HillHenry Deacon, M, Head, married, age 54, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
15SchoolhouseEdward Luck, M, Head, married, age 39, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: sawyer
15BrookHannah Smith, F, Head, single, age 54, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: charwoman

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