The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1871 Mayfield Census
Reference RG10/1051: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 14
Part of the Parish of Mayfield commencing at the Lower House Garden to Wellbrook including six Cottages at Miss then to Butcher's Cross Gate taking the Rotherfield Road to the Green - Freemans Farm and Mr John Brays then keeping the boundary of the Parish to Stile House then taking the road that leads to the Furnace crossing the field at the back of the Convent to the Lower House Garden including Downford, Pages, Crabb, Mount Pleasant, Upper Cowdens, Twitts, Homestalls, Stone Lodge, Hutchings, Woolbridges, Noman's Hole, Salters Green, Captain Wood's, Argos Hill, Spitlye, Wallis, Ellis, Park Farm and Great Trodgers
Enumerator: Henry 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
1The GroveHenry Bonnick, M, Head, married, age 49, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: landowner and farmer of 320 acres employing 16 labourers and 7 boys
1The MissJohn Hall, M, Head, married, age 53, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: rat and mole catcher
1The MissJames Haffenden, M, Head, married, age 61, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
1The MissGeorge Saunders, M, Head, married, age 41, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
2The MissMary Heathfield, F, Head, widowed, age 58, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: monthly nurse
2The MissReuben Hobbs, M, Head, married, age 40, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: timber hewer
2The MissEdward Luck, M, Head, married, age 49, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
3CrabbJames Jenner, M, Head, married, age 37, born Benenden, Kent; occupation: farmer of 150 acres employing 4 men and 2 boys
3Mount PleasantJohn James Rees, M, Head, married, age 50, born London, Middlesex; occupation: house and landowner
3Cowden'sJohn Bridger, M, Head, widowed, age 76, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 95 acres emplying 1 man
3Cowden'sEdwin Selms, M, Head, married, age 38, born Brede, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
3Little TwittsJohn Pennegar, M, Head, married, age 21, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
3Little TwittsJohn Page, M, Head, married, age 56, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
4Butcher's CrossEdwin Jarvis, M, Head, married, age 47, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: smith and farmer of 14 acres
4The MissHennery Parkes, M, Head, married, age 33, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: brickmaker journeyman
4The MissSamuel Parkes, M, Head, married, age 50, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
4DownfordThomas Bridger, M, Head, married, age 37, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: gamekeeper
5PagesThomas Bridger, M, Head, married, age 65, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 155 acres employing 3 labourers and 1 boy
5WoolbridgesAndrew Hartfield, M, Head, married, age 24, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: higgler
5WoolbridgesJohn Duplock, M, Head, married, age 70, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
5WoolbridgesJohn Cornford, M, Head, married, age 30, born Burwash, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 3 acres
5WoolbridgesMary Frost, F, Head, widowed, age 62, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 7 acres
6WoolbridgesSamuel Bailey, M, Head, married, age 64, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
6WoolbridgesHarriet Jarrett, F, Head, widowed, age 54, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: charwoman
6WoolbridgesSarah Hazelden, F, Head, widowed, age 58, born Crowhurst, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer (almswoman)
6WoolbridgesRichard Parkes, M, Head, married, age 76, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
6Wellbrook FarmIsaac Standen, M, Head, married, age 63, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: farmer of 140 acres employing 4 labourers
6Stone LodgeGeorge Hope, M, Head, married, age 35, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
7Stone LodgeJesse Gadd, M, Head, married, age 53, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
7HolmstallsElizabeth Cornwall, F, Head, widowed, age 60, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 63 acres employing 7 labourers
7Twitts CottageWilliam Humphrey, M, Head, married, age 31, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
7Twitts CottageWilliam Collins, M, Head, married, age 47, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
8Twitts FarmJohn Russell, M, Head, married, age 51, born Burwash, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 117 acres employing 3 men and 1 boy
8Horleigh GreenGeorge Burgess, M, Head, married, age 44, born Ticehurst, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 113 acres employing 3 labourers and 1 boy
8Little FreemansEdward Gorringe, M, Head, married, age 37, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
9Little FreemansWilliam White, M, Head, married, age 38, born Hurstpierpoint, Sussex; occupation: pedlar
9Freeman's FarmGeorge Edwards, M, Head, married, age 67, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 160 acres employing 7 labourers and 2 boys
9Streel FarmJohn Bray, M, Head, married, age 41, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 75 acres employing 2 labourers and 1 boy
9Freeman'sEdward Tapsell, M, Head, married, age 39, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10Reading's CottageWilliam Dadswell, M, Head, married, age 61, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10Reading's CottageJames Rogers, M, Head, married, age 38, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10Rubber HouseSamuel Cornford, M, Head, married, age 70, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: annuitant
10Ordinance PlaceJohn Hartfield, M, Head, married, age 50, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 16 acres
11Freeman'sGeorge Rogers, M, Head, married, age 24, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
11Freeman'sAlfred Hesman, M, Head, married, age 19, born Mayfield, Sussex
11The BrookWilliam Field, M, Head, married, age 62, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 24 acres
11Rubber HouseDavid Dadswell, M, Head, married, age 35, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
11Brook CottageDaniel Dadswell, M, Head, married, age 29, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
11Brook CottageObed Dadswell, M, Head, married, age 58, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
12Salter's FarmAmos Frost, M, Head, married, age 40, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: trug maker
12Noman's HoleSarah Lade, F, Head, widowed, age 82, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer's widow (almswoman)
12New House FarmHenry Ford, M, Head, married, age 77, born Hurstpierpoint, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 61 acres employing 1 labourer
12Great TrodgersGeorge Stephens, M, Head, married, age 47, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 207 acres employing 7 labourers and 2 boys
12Great TrodgersThomas James Delves, M, Head, married, age 48, born Herstmonceux, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
13Trodgers CottageGeorge Blackman, M, Head, widowed, age 43, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
13Trodgers CottageJames Atwood, M, Head, widowed, age 32, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farm carter [surname spelt as Hatwood]
13TroorshatchPeter Maskell, M, Head, married, age 35, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
14Spitlye FarmRobert Cornford, M, Head, married, age 63, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 100 acres employing 3 men and 1 boy
14Argos HillJames Dennis, M, Head, married, age 42, born Folkington, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
14ChequersCharles Weston, M, Head, married, age 38, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: beerhouse keeper
14Ellis FarmJoseph Groombridge, M, Head, married, age 51, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 80 acres employing 2 labourers
15Little EllisGeorge Parkes, M, Head, married, age 41, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 6 acres and brickmaker
15Park Farm CottageRichard Kemp, M, Head, married, age 53, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: shoemaker journeyman
15[Park Farm Cottage]George Parker, M, Head, married, age 52, born Edenbridge, Kent; occupation: farm labourer
16[Park Farm Cottage]Thomas Cinden, M, Head, married, age 30, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
16Park FarmJames George Campion, M, Head, married, age 36, born Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire; occupation: farmer of 258 acres employing 6 labourers and 1 boy
16Park FarmCharles Snell, M, Head, married, age 36, born Headingly, Yorkshire; occupation: dissenting minister (independent)
16Little WallisCharles Fenner, M, Head, married, age 49, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 12 acres
17Wallis FarmJohn Bassett, M, Head, married, age 73, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 6 acres employing 1 man
17Little SpitlyeWilliam Overy, M, Head, widowed, age 69, born Hollington, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 40 acres
17Angle CottageObed Cole, M, Head, widowed, age 61, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
17WoodleyFrances J.R. Smith, F, Head, single, age 50, born Stoke, Devon; occupation: annuitant
18Salters GreenDavid Pollington, M, Head, widowed, age 56, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
18Salters GreenDavid Pollington, M, Head, married, age 30, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
18Salters GreenGeorge Avis, M, Head, married, age 40, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
18Argos HillAaron Weston, M, Head, married, age 47, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: miller & farmer of 28 acres
19EllisMark Ripley, M, Head, married, age 24, born Hailsham, Sussex; occupation: marine store dealer
19Horleigh GreenJohn Daley, M, Head, single, age 35, born Glamorgan; occupation: farm labourer

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