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]

Census sheets
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Sheet    Place    Census entry

2MissJesse Godden, M, Head, married, age 33, born Battle, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Elizabeth Godden, F, Wife, married, age 30, born Newhaven, Sussex; occupation: laundress
    Jane Ann Godden, F, Daughter, age 9, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Frances Godden, F, Daughter, age 6, born Mayfield, Sussex
    George Henry Godden, M, Son, age 4, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Moses Freeman, M, Lodger, widowed, age 60, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

2MissSamuel Parkes, M, Head, married, age 41, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Harriet Parkes, F, Wife, married, age 42, born Rye, Sussex
    Samuel Parkes, M, Son, age 4, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Charles Ed Parkes, M, Son, age 1, born Mayfield, Sussex

2DownfoordWilliam Buss, M, Head, married, age 30, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 42 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy
    Elizabeth Buss, F, Wife, married, age 29, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's wife
    Benjamin Thos Buss, M, Son, age 6, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    William Buss, M, Son, age 5, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Samuel Buss, M, Son, age 4, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Daniel Buss, M, Son, age 2, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Victoria Buss, F, Daughter, age 3m, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Ann Pollington, F, Servant, single, age 19, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: house servant
    Daniel Dadswell, M, Servant, single, age 20, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Thomas Sellings, M, Servant, single, age 19, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: carter

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