The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1881 Hawkhurst Census
Reference RG 11/939: Hawkhurst Enumeration District No 8; District: Cranbrook Union; Enumerator: J.M. Durrant
Hawkhurst, part of: Mother Church, St Lawrence Ecclesiastical Parish
All that part of the Parish of Hawkhurst that lies to the East of the road leading from Highgate to Cranbrook as far as the boundaries of the Parish adjoining to Cranbrook Parish at Tubs Lake including Attwaters, Four Wents, Lillden, Woodsden, Gungreen to the boundaries of the Parish adjoining to Sandhurst Parish at the Throws and that part of the Parish that lies to the North of the road leading from Sandhurst to Highgate.
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]

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Sheet    Place    Census entry

386 ColonnadeJohn Nickels, M, Head, married, age 51, born Smarden, Kent; occupation: shoemaker
    Elizabeth Nickels, F, Wife, married, age 55, born Hawkhurst, Kent
    Alfred Nickels, M, Son, single, age 25, born Hawkhurst, Kent; occupation: shoemaker

387 ColonnadeSamuel Williams, M, Head, married, age 56, born Cranbrook, Kent; occupation: hairdresser
    Martha A. Williams, F, Wife, married, age 60, born Sandhurst, Kent
    Ebenezer Williams, M, Son, single, age 30, born Hawkhurst, Kent; occupation: photographer
    William J. Williams, M, Son, single, age 27, born Hawkhurst, Kent
    Frank Williams, M, Son, single, age 22, born Hawkhurst, Kent; occupation: master printer employing 2 apprentices

388 ColonnadeSusannah Sellens, F, Head, widowed, age 55, born Hawkhurst, Kent
    Alexander A. Sellens, M, Son, single, age 19, born Hawkhurst, Kent; occupation: draper's assistant (unemployed)
    William H. Sellens, M, Son, married, age 26, born Hawkhurst, Kent; occupation: coal merchant
    Mary Ann Sellens, F, Daughter-in-law, married, age 20, born Salehurst, Sussex

38Fir TreesJames Carr Fisher, M, Head, married, age 67, born St Lukes, Middlesex; occupation: retired surveyor
    Maria Fisher, F, Wife, married, age 57, born Islington, Middlesex
    Caroline Ballard, F, Servant, single, age 30, born Hawkhurst, Kent; occupation: general servant

38Almshouse 1Jane Warren, F, Head, widowed, age 87, born Hawkhurst, Kent

38Almshouse 2Elizabeth Whitwell, F, Head, widowed, age 93, born London, Middlesex
    Martha Verrall, F, Servant, single, age 21, born Goudhurst, Kent; occupation: nurse

38Almshouse 2Phyllis Friend, F, Head, widowed, age 87, born Cranbrook, Kent

38Public SchoolsAlfred C. Moore, M, Head, single, age 23, born Chatham, Kent; occupation: schoolmaster public elementary
    Eliza Hughes, F, Dressmaker, widowed, age 54, born Hawkhurst, Kent

38Almshouse 4Henry Saxby, M, Head, widowed, age 64, born Wittersham, Kent

38Almshouse 5William Watman, M, Head, widowed, age 83, born Hawkhurst, Kent

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