The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1871 Rotherfield Census (including Crowborough)
Reference RG10/1050: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 4
Part of the Parish of Rotherfield commencing at the Boarshead Inn taking the North West side of the Turnpike Road to Crown turning and boundary of the Parish to Oarsnash and then in a straight line to the Boarshead Inn including Stone House, Renby's, Hamsell Railway Station, Hamsell Hill, Fostle Cottages, Warren, Rocks, Lealands, Hollamby's, Pinstraws, Oarsnash, Motts and Bullfinches
Enumerator: William Elphick.
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

5Cobbarn Farm HouseJohn Kemp, M, Head, married, age 70, born Eynsford, Kent; occupation: farmer of 86 acres employing 1 man and 2 boys
    Mary Kemp, F, Wife, married, age 65, born Hadlow, Kent; occupation: farmer's wife
    John Henry Kemp, M, Son, single, age 26, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer's son
    Joseph Packham, M, Servant, single, age 16, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm servant
    Charles Batchelor, M, Servant, single, age 13, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm servant

5Cobbarn CottagesTrayton Smith, M, Head, married, age 40, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Eliza Smith, F, Wife, married, age 40, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer's wife
    Sarah Smith, F, Daughter, single, age 9, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    William Smith, M, Son, age 7, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Henry Smith, M, Son, age 5, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Martha Smith, F, Daughter, age 2, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Sarah J Farmer, F, Niece, single, age 18, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: domestic servant, out of employment

5Cobbarn CottagesSarah Lockyer, F, Head, widowed, age 53, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: master blacksmith
    William Lockyer, M, Son, single, age 17, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: master blacksmith
    Sarah Lockyer, F, Daughter, single, age 20, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Henry Cooper, M, Servant, single, age 25, born Hartfield, Sussex; occupation: blacksmith journeyman

5Cobbarn CottagesJesse Hayward, M, Head, married, age 62, born Chiddingly, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Sophia Hayward, F, Wife, married, age 57, born Rotherfield, Sussex

5Cobbarn CottagesJames Hemsley, M, Head, married, age 29, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Ellen Hemsley, F, Wife, married, age 28, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Alice Maud Hemsley, F, Daughter, age 4, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Nelson Saml Hemsley, M, Son, age 2, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Emily Ellen Hemsley, F, Daughter, age 5m, born Rotherfield, Sussex

5Cobbarn CottagesSarah Young, F, Lodger, widowed, age 71, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer's widow (almswoman)

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