The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1891 Mayfield Census
Reference RG12/783: District: Uckfield; Sub-District: Rotherfield; Enumeration District: No 14
Enumerator: Mr A. C. Foard
Boundary Being that part commencing at the Myths to Wellbrook then to Butchers Cross taking the Rotherfield Road to the Green and Freemans Farm and Mr Hoaths Street Farm, then taking the boundary of the Parish to Stile House then taking the Road to the Furnace, crossing the fields at the back of Convent to the Myths.
Contents Comprising the four Cottages at the Myths, the Railway Station and Hotel, Downford, Pages, Crabb, Livetts, Holmstalls and Cottages, Mount Pleasant, Upper Cowdens, Stone Lodge, Hutchings, Woolbridge, reading, Salters Green,Mr and Mrs Grey Argos Hill, Spitlye, Wallis, Ellis, Park Farm, Great Trodgers, and Victoria Cottages in Love Lane.
The Whole in the Parliamentary Division of Rye.
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

2No 2, Victoria CottagesJohn G Wilson, M, Head, married, age 28, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation Signalman and Porter, L.B. & S.E. Rail
    Mary A Wilson, F, Wife, married, age 26, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Mary Wilson, F, Daughter, age 5, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Mercy Wilson, F, Daughter, age 3, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Ellen Wilson, F, Daughter, age 8, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Albert L Dench, M, Lodger, single, age 15, born Barcombe, Sussex; occupation: booking clerk, L.B. & S.E. rail

2No 3, Victoria CottagesWilliam Brown, M, Head, married, age 27, born Godstone, Surrey; occupation: gardener and domestic servant
    Alice Brown, F, Wife, married, age 25, born Godstone, Surrey
    William G Brown, M, Son, age 10 months, born Heathfield, Sussex

2No 4, Victoria CottagesAlfred Fenner, M, Head, widowed, age 39, born Pembury, Kent; occupation: farm labourer
    Fanny Bale, F, Housekeeper, widowed, age 39, born Clapton, Middlesex, occupation: house keeper
    Henry G Bale, M, Housekeeper's Son, single, age 15, born Forest Gate, Essex, occupation: milk vendor
    James Bale, M, Housekeeper's Son, age 5, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Fanny Bale, F, Housekeeper's Daughter, age 3, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Thomas Saunders, M, Visitor, age 15, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent

2Railway StationGeorge A Parker, M, Head, single, age 30, born Barcombe, Sussex; occupation: railway station master
    John Rowland, M, Sister's Husband, married, age 44, born Ditchling, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Ellen R Rowland, F, Sister, married, age 37, born Balcombe, Sussex
    William J Rowland, M, Nephew, age 9, born Hurstpierpoint, Sussex; occupation: scholar
    Emily L Rowland, F, Niece, age 9 months, born Mayfield, Sussex
    Alice Peckam, F, Lodger, single, age 34, born Worth, Sussex; occupation: refreshment room attendant

2Station HotelPercival Collins, M, Head, married, age 37, born Wartling, Sussex; occupation: hotel keeper
    Wellie S Collins, F, Wife, married, age 25, born Bexhill, Sussex
    Herbert Collins, M, Son, age 3, born Wartling, Sussex

2Downford CottageSamuel Parks, M, Head, married, age 70, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation Turnpike Roadman
    Harriet Parks, F, Wife, married, age 71, born Rye, Sussex

2Wellbrook CottageHenry Medhurst, M, Head, widowed, age 51, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
    Alice Medhurst, F, Daughter, single, age 21, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: house keeper

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