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

13Trodgers CottageHenry Hobden, M, Head, married, age 35, born Portslade, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Mary Hobden, F, Wife, married, age 36, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Elizabeth Hobden, F, Daughter, age 10, born Rottingdean, Sussex
    William Hobden, M, Son, age 8, born Rottingdean, Sussex
    George Hobden, M, Son, age 5, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Benjamin Hobden, M, Son, age 3, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Harriet Hobden, F, Daughter, age 1, born Mayfield, Sussex

13Trodgers CottageWilliam Frost, M, Head, married, age 29, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Philadelphia Frost, F, Wife, married, age 28, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Selina Frost, F, Daughter, age 4, born Wadhurst, Sussex
    Francis Frost, M, Son, age 3, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Iden Frost, M, Son, age 1, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Lucy Bones, F, Mother-in-law, widowed, age 80, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: former charwoman and pauper

13WallaceJohn Bassett, M, Head, married, age 63, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 36 acres
    Sophia Bassett, F, Wife, married, age 42, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's wife
    Sarah Bassett, F, Daughter, single, age 18, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's daughter
    Thomas Bassett, M, Son, age 13, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Mary Bassett, F, Daughter, age 9, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    William P Bassett, M, Son, age 3, born Mayfield, Sussex

13Little SpitlyeJesse Pratt, M, Head, widowed, age 66, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 40 acres
    Mary Ann Clark, F, Servant, single, age 34, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: housekeeper

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