The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1871 Rotherfield Census (including Crowborough)
Reference RG10/1050: 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 by the Crown turning then keeping the Boundary of the Parish to Knapp Wood then take the road to Saxonberry Hill and Greenhedges to Sprattsbottom and Cowford Bridge then turn to the right at the bottom of Hornhurst Wood to Turks over Johnsons Bridge along the bottom of Limekiln Forest to the Boarshead Inn including the Rocks, Queens Head, Hamsell, Copyhold, Brownings, Dengate Farms, Hoaths, Blackthorn hill, Redgate Mill, Newhouse, Turks, Jesters, the Earls Cottage, Boarshead Inn.
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

6TrenchJohn Russell, M, Head, married, age 61, born Burwash, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Caroline Russell, F, Wife, married, age 46, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Margaretta Russell, F, Daughter, age 12, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar

6TrenchJames Wickens, M, Head, married, age 32, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Ellen Wickens, F, Wife, married, age 30, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Albert B Wickens, M, Son, age 11, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Fanny Wickens, F, Daughter, age 7, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    John Wickens, M, Son, age 2, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Alfred Wickens, M, Son, age 1m, born Rotherfield, Sussex

6StitchesJames Damper, M, Head, married, age 65, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Dinness Damper, F, Wife, married, age 60, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Edwin Damper, M, Son, single, age 30, born Alfriston, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Ebenezer Damper, M, Son, single, age 28, born Seaford, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Mercy Damper, F, Daughter, single, age 23, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: domestic servant, out of employment
    Eli Damper, M, Son, single, age 21, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

6StitchesWilliam Smith, M, Head, married, age 68, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: herdsman
    Mary Smith, F, Wife, married, age 62, born Frant, Sussex
    William Smith, M, Son, single, age 25, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

6StitchesMartha Filtness, F, Head, widowed, age 34, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: needle woman
    Henry Filtness, M, Son, age 13, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Ellen M Filtness, F, Daughter, age 10, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Esther Filtness, F, Daughter, age 6, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Mercy Filtness, F, Daughter, age 3, born Rotherfield, Sussex

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