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

11MarlingsHenry Killick Dibley, M, Head, married, age 26, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Fanny Dibley, F, Wife, married, age 23, born Speldhurst, Kent
    Walter W Dibley, M, Son, age 3, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Rose E Dibley, F, Daughter, age 1, born Withyham, Sussex

11MarlingsWilliam Quinell, M, Lodger, single, age 56, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

11Rudgate MillCharles Wickens, M, Head, married, age 35, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: miller & farmer of 60 acres employing 2 men
    Harriett Wickens, F, Wife, married, age 35, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Charles Wickens, M, Son, age 3, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Fanny Wickens, F, Niece, age 4, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Thomas Marchant, M, Servant, single, age 66, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: miller

11TrenchWilliam Fermor, M, Head, married, age 77, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: almsman (farm labourer)
    Sarah Fermor, F, Wife, married, age 67, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: almswoman

11TrenchThomas Berwick, M, Head, married, age 56, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Ann Berwick, F, Wife, married, age 46, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    James Berwick, M, Son, single, age 17, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Elizabeth Berwick, F, Daughter, single, age 15, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Henry Berwick, M, Son, age 13, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Alfred Berwick, M, Son, age 7, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    William Berwick, M, Son, age 4, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar

11Blackthorn HillWilliam Unsted, M, Head, married, age 37, born Waldron, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 139 acres employing 1 man
    Eliza Unsted, F, Wife, married, age 38, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    William Unsted, M, Son, age 3, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Phoebe Killick, F, Mother-in-law, widowed, age 62, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: former farmer
    Miriam E Ashdown, F, Servant, single, age 15, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: domestic servant
    John Brooman, M, Servant, widowed, age 59, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: carter
    George Hallett, M, Servant, single, age 21, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm servant
    Jesse Izzard, M, Servant, single, age 15, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: carter's mate

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