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

14Lealands Farm HouseWilliam Sumner, M, Head, married, age 40, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: farmer of 83 acres employing 4 labourers
    Lucy Sumner, F, Wife, married, age 39, born Wadhurst, Sussex
    William Sumner, M, Son, single, age 18, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Albert J Sumner, M, Son, single, age 12, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Sarah Sumner, F, Daughter, age 6, born Speldhurst, Kent; occupation: scholar
    Horace Sumner, M, Son, age 3m, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Mark Cole, M, Servant, single, age 21, born Withyham, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    George Weller, M, Servant, single, age 17, born Withyham, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Emily Weaver, F, Servant, single, age 19, born Brighton, Sussex; occupation: general domestic servant
    James Stevens, M, Son, single, age 28, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    John Stevens, M, Son, single, age 22, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Thomas Stevens, M, Son, single, age 20, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Lucy Stevens, F, Daughter, single, age 18, born Rotherfield, Sussex
    Emily Stevens, F, Daughter, single, age 16, born Rotherfield, Sussex

14Station Road CottageThomas Barden, M, Head, married, age 45, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: jobbing gardener
    Sarah Barden, F, Wife, married, age 45, born West Hoathly, Sussex
    Eliza Langridge, F, Daughter, age 11, born Withyham, Sussex
    William J Young, M, Nephew, age 15, born Maresfield, Sussex

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