The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1881 Goudhurst Census
Reference RG 11/939: Goudhurst Enumeration District No 4; District: Cranbrook Union; Enumerator: F.J. Thurgood
Goudhurst part of: Mother Church St Mary Ecclesiastical Parish
All that part of the parish of Goudhurst embraced between the North side of the Road from Goudhurst to Lamberhurst and the Road leading from Goudhurst to Marden as far a Summerhill Hill farm (little) including Little Beckingfold, Swan Farm, The Gore, Lidwells, The Grange, Trowswell and Ratcliffe Cottages.
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

4Lidwells CottageAlfred Penfold, M, Head, married, age 34, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: Gardener and domestic servant
    Louisa M. Penfold, F, Wife, married, age 33, born Goudhurst, Kent
    Annie L. Penfold, F, Daughter, age 10, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: Scholar
    Nellie Penfold, F, Daughter, age 8, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: Scholar
    Minnie G. Penfold, F, Daughter, age 3, born Goudhurst, Kent
    Wilmot G. Penfold, M, Son, age 10 m, born Goudhurst, Kent
    Fanny C. Luck, F, Sister-in-law, single, age 30, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: Dressmaker

4LidwellsJoseph J. Chapman, M, Head, married, age 43, born London, Middlesex; occupation: M.A. Cambridge, income from dividends
    Fanny Chapman, F, Wife, married, age 40, born Whitby, York
    Edward H. Chapman, M, Son, age 7, born Marylebone, Middlesex; occupation: scholar
    Percy Chapman, M, Son, age 6, born Florence (British Subject), Italy; occupation: scholar
    Harold Chapman, M, Son, age 4, born Goudhurst, Kent
    Wilfred H. Chapman, M, Son, age 1, born Goudhurst, Kent
    Jeannette Hutchinson, F, Governess, single, age 19, born Marylebone, Middlesex; occupation: professional governess
    William Sweetman, M, Servant, single, age 25, born Cliftden, Oxford; occupation: coachman and domestic servant
    Mina Bernaur, F, Servant, single, age 26, born Friederweiler, Baden, Germany; occupation: domestic servant
    Elizabeth Boniface, F, Servant, single, age 27, born Hailsham, Sussex; occupation: domestic servant
    Lucy Frewin, F, Servant, single, age 19, born Burham, Kent; occupation: domestic servant
    Augusta Schneider, F, Servant, single, age 17, born Brixton, Surrey; occupation: domestic servant
    Kate Kingsnorth, F, Servant, single, age 20, born Warehorne, Kent; occupation: domestic servant

4Trowswell HillJames Hope, M, Head, married, age 61, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: farm labourer
    Catherine B. Hope, F, Wife, married, age 55, born Goudhurst, Kent
    James Hope, M, Son, single, age 27, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: bricklayer
    Herbert Hope, M, Son, age 14, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: scholar
    Orlando Hodge, M, Boarder, single, age 28, born Ticehurst, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

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