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

5Mount PleasantJohn James Rees, M, Head, married, age 48, born London, Middlesex; occupation: landed proprietor
    Eleanor Ann Rees, F, Wife, married, age 45, born Croydon, Surrey
    Ann Hughes, F, Sister-in-law, single, age 58, born London, Middlesex; occupation: housekeeper
    Lucy Barden, F, Servant, single, age 17, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: house servant

5Little CowdenPhiladelphia Hiland, F, Head, widowed, age 45, born Ewhurst, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer's widow and pauper
    Elizabeth Hiland, F, Daughter, single, age 17, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: house servant
    John Hiland, M, Son, single, age 16, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Jane Page, F, Servant, single, age 23, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: nurse

5CowdensGeorge Groombridge, M, Head, married, age 45, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 75 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy
    Sophia Groombridge, F, Wife, married, age 39, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's wife
    James Groombridge, M, Son, age 14, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's son
    Emma Groombridge, F, Daughter, age 12, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Harriot Groombridge, F, Daughter, age 10, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Fanny Groombridge, F, Daughter, age 7, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Ellen Groombridge, F, Daughter, age 5, born Mayfield, Sussex
    George Groombridge, M, Son, age 2, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Sarah Ann Brooman, F, Servant, single, age 18, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: house servant
    Alfred Reed, M, Lodger, single, age 18, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

5Butchers CrossEdgar Jarvis, M, Head, married, age 37, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: master blacksmith employing 2 men
    Ellen Jarvis, F, Wife, married, age 29, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Walter Jarvis, M, Son, age 5, born Waldron, Sussex
    Harry Jarvis, M, Son, age 3, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    William Tyler, M, Servant, married, age 41, born Marden, Kent; occupation: blacksmith
    Horace Thompson, M, Servant, single, age 19, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: blacksmith

5Butchers CrossHenry Beale, M, Head, married, age 35, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: thatcher
    Ellen Beale, F, Wife, married, age 27, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Henry Beale, M, Son, age 9, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Leah Beale, F, Daughter, age 3, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Georgina Beale, F, Daughter, age 1, born Mayfield, Sussex

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