The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1861 Rotherfield Census (including Crowborough)
Reference RG9/574: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 3
Part of the Parish of Rotherfield commencing at the Boarshead Inn taking all the Houses on the right of the Road leading to Tunbridge Wells including Hamsell, Copyhold and Brownings Farms to the Crown turning then keeping the boundary of the Parish to Knapp Wood and then keep the Road to Saxonbury Hill and Danegate Farms continuing the Road past Green Hedges to Spratts Bottom and Cowford Bridge including Blackthorn Hill and Mrs Rawlins's keeping the Rotherfield Road about eight Rods over the Bridge then turn to the right at the bottom of Hornshurst Wood to Turks taking Rudgate Mill and New House over Johnsons Bridge along the bottom of Lime Kiln Forest taking Testers and the Earls Cottage to the Boarshead Inn.
Part of this District is within the Holy Trinity Ecclesiastical District.
Enumerator: George Hyder
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

5Brownings LodgeHenry Jeal, M, Head, married, age 34, born Edenbridge, Kent; occupation: carpenter
    Mary Jeal, F, Wife, married, age 36, born Walford, Herefordshire

5Steel Bridge [Crown Corner]Jesse Hayward, M, Head, married, age 53, born Chiddingly, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Sophia Hayward, F, Wife, married, age 48, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Charles W Smith, M, Grandson, age 9, born Liston Grove, St. James Street, London; occupation: scholar

5Steel BridgeWilliam Avis, M, Lodger, single, age 18, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

5Meadowbank CottageMichael Miles, M, Head, married, age 75, born Horsted Keynes, Sussex; occupation: general medical practitioner and graduate of College of Glasgow
    Mary Miles, F, Wife, married, age 66, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Mary Miles, F, Daughter, single, age 41, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Lucy Miles, F, Daughter, single, age 28, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Ruth Hallett, F, Servant, single, age 17, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: general servant

5Ivy CottageFredrick Muddle, M, Head, single, age 45, born Lewes, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 22 acres

5Ivy CottageThomas Fenner, M, Head, married, age 23, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: carter
    Caroline Fenner, F, Wife, married, age 22, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Lewis Fenner, M, Son, age 2, born Rotherfield, Sussex

5HamsellHorace Betts, M, Head, married, age 29, born Langley, Kent; occupation: farmer of 226 acres employing 7 men and 2 boys
    Sarah Betts, F, Wife, married, age 25, born Langley, Kent; occupation: farmer's wife
    Horace Betts, M, Son, age 1, born Langley, Kent
    James Betts, M, Brother, single, age 34, born Langley, Kent
    Alfred Betts, M, Brother, single, age 25, born Langley, Kent
    Jane Coomber, F, Servant, single, age 30, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: house servant
    Harriett Killick, F, Servant, single, age 13, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: nurse maid
    William Martin, M, Servant, single, age 47, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: carter
    Samuel Streeter, M, Servant, single, age 24, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: carter's mate

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