The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1861 Mayfield Census
Reference RG9/574: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 14
Part of the Parish of Mayfield commencing at the Lower House Garden to Wellbrook including the six Cottages at Miss then to Butcher's Cross Gate and Mr Thos Bridgers taking the road that leads to Mr Richard Marchants keeping the boundary of the Parish to Stile House then take the road that leads to the Furnace crossing the Fields at the back of the Old Palace to the Lower House Garden and thence to School house near Stonecross including Argos Hill, Hoadleys, Horleigh Green, Pages, Downford, Hutchings, Twitts, Freemans, the Cottages at Woolbridge and No Mans Hole also Trodgers Farm
Enumerator: George 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]

Census sheets
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Sheet    Place    Census entry

12Argos HillObed Cole, M, Head, widowed, age 51, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Owen Cole, M, Son, age 15, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Ann Cole, F, Daughter, age 8, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Ann Wickes, F, Servant, single, age 43, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: housekeeper
    William Henry Wickes, M, Boarder, age 14, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

12Argos HillWilliam Hills, M, Head, married, age 34, born Horsham, Sussex; occupation: farmer out of business
    Ruth Hills, F, Wife, married, age 27, born Ripe, Sussex
    William A Hills, M, Son, age 6, born Laughton, Sussex
    Ruth M Hills, F, Daughter, age 3, born Framfield, Sussex
    Miriam A Hills, F, Daughter, age 1, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Miriam Goldsmith, F, Sister, single, age 16, born Laughton, Sussex

12SpitlyeThomas Clifford, M, Head, single, age 30, born Maidstone, Kent; occupation: farmer of 100 acres employing 1 labourer and 1 boy
    Mary Clifford, F, Aunt, single, age 50, born Boxley, Kent
    Rowena Clifford, F, Aunt, single, age 39, born Boxley, Kent; occupation: housekeeper
    Frances Clifford, F, Aunt, single, age 32, born Boxley, Kent

12Trulls HatchJames Wright, M, Head, married, age 28, born Little Thurlow, Suffolk; occupation: gamekeeper
    Sarah Wright, F, Wife, married, age 31, born Abingdon, Hertfordshire

12TrodgersRichard Pratt, M, Head, married, age 83, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 328 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy
    Elizabeth Pratt, F, Wife, married, age 80, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's wife
    Ann Pratt, F, Daughter, single, age 50, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's daughter; handicap: deaf and dumb from birth and blind 4 years
    Charles Pratt, M, Son, single, age 48, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's son; handicap: deaf and dumb from birth
    Sarah Pratt, F, Daughter, single, age 42, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's daughter; handicap: deaf and dumb from birth
    Richard Brown, M, Servant, widowed, age 74, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: carter
    James Cornford, M, Visitor, married, age 66, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

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