The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1891 Rotherfield Census (including Crowborough)
Reference RG12/782: Rotherfield Enumeration District No 3
Enumerator: Mr William Hyder
Being that part commencing at the Boars Head Inn taking all the Houses on the Right of the Road leading to Tunbridge Wells by the Crown turning then keeping the boundary of the Parish to Knapp Wood then taking the Road to Crowberry Hill and Greenhedges to Spratts bottom and Cowford Bridge then turn to the right at the bottom of Hornshurst Wood to Turks over Solomons Bridge along the bottom of Lime Kiln Forest to the Boars Head Inn. Contents comprising The Rocks, Hamsell, Copyhold, Brownings, Danegate Farms, Hoaths, Blackthorn Hill, Redgate Mill, Newhouse, Turks, Testers and the Earls Cottages and Boars Head Inn
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]
 
Sheet    Place    Census entry
1Turks CottageEli G Wilmshurst, M, Head, married, age 46, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation Farm Labourer
1Turks CottageSamuel Wickens, M, Head, married, age 33, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation Farm Labourer
1MarlingsHerbert Dadswell, M, Head, married, age 46, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: railway labourer
1MarlingsWilliam Smith, M, Head, married, age 45, born Frant, Sussex; occupation: general labourer
1Redgate MillThomas Everatt, M, Head, married, age 56, born Gainsborough, Lincolnshire; occupation: farmer
2TrenchCharles Cornford, M, Head, married, age 26, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
2TrenchFrederick Martin, M, Head, married, age 48, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: railway labourer
2Blackthorn HillRichard Burridge, M, Head, married, age 59, born Withyham, Sussex, occupation: farmer
2BlackhouseJames Glue, M, Head, married, age 29, born Chichester, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
2White House FarmAlfred Walter, M, Head, married, age 44, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation Farmer
3Hoaths FarmEdmond Latter, M, Head, married, age 61, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer
3Hoaths CottageAlfred I Latter, M, Head, married, age 53, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
3Hoaths CottageJane Knight, F, Head, widowed, age 37, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: charwoman
3[Great] Danegate FarmGeorge Swift, M, Head, married, age 48, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation: farmer
3[Great] Danegate CottagesJames Payne, M, Head, married, age 59, born Edenbridge, Kent; occupation: farm labourer
4[Great] Danegate CottagesJames Peerless, M, Head, married, age 33, born Lower Norwood; occupation: farm labourer
4[Great] Danegate CottagesGeorge Martin, M, Head, married, age 34, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
4[Great] Danegate CottagesEli Tompsett, M, Head, married, age 47, born Wadhurst, Sussex; occupation Farm Labourer
4Park CottageJude Hall, M, Head, married, age 42, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: gamekeeper
4Parkers Barn CottageWilliam Midmore, M, Head, married, age 53, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: general labourer
5BoarsheadJohn Tester, M, Head, single, age 70, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer
5BoarsheadJohn Wilson, M, Head, married, age 39, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation Farm Labourer
5Boarshead InnJames Jenner, M, Head, married, age 56, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: innkeeper and rake maker
5BoarsheadCharles Cole, M, Head, married, age 64, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer
5BoarsheadJames Beard, M, Head, married, age 35, born Withyham, Sussex, occupation: gardener
5BoarsheadEzra Richard Streatfield, M, Head, married, age 30, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: wheelwright
6BoarsheadJohn Fenner, M, Head, age 40, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: blacksmith
6Rocks Lodge CottageJohn Service, M, Head, married, age 28, born Scotland; occupation: gardener
6Turks RocksHenry Gebhardt, M, Head, married, age 69, born British Subject, Hamburg; occupation: living on own means
6The Cottage RocksHerbert Wilmot, M, Head, married, age 43, born Marden, Wiltshire; occupation Gardener
6The Cottage RocksAlbert Parkes, M, Head, single, age 20, born Coventry; occupation Gardener
6The Cottage RocksJoseph Stanyon, M, Head, single, age 20, born Rosworth, Leicestershire; occupation: gardener and domestic servant
6Rocks StablesFrederick I Hall, M, Head, married, age 27, born Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire; occupation: coachman
7Rocks StablesWilliam Rogers, M, Head, married, age 24, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: waggoner
7Turks FarmGeorge Horswell, M, Head, married, age 36, born Dunchideock, Devon; occupation: farm bailiff
7BoarsheadThomas Edward Taylor, M, Head, married, age 49, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: grocer and draper
7BoarsheadThomas Wm Taylor, M, Head, married, age 22, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: grocer
8SilverlandsJohn Furtado, M, Head, married, age 64, born Kennington, Surrey; occupation: living on own means
8Silverlands StablesJohn Willm Barden, M, Head, married, age 31, born Heathfield, Sussex, occupation: coachman and domestic servant
8LeachpittJohn Morse, M, Head, married, age 63, born Easthope, Northamptonshire; occupation: farmer
8Renley FarmIsaac Ledger, M, Head, married, age 55, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer
8Mead FarmSamuel Cornford, M, Head, married, age 50, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer
9New House FarmAlfred Wickens, M, Head, married, age 67, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation Farmer
10SandhillRobert Berwick, M, Head, married, age 79, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: roadman
10SandhillMichael Godley, M, Head, married, age 52, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
10MaplesdenWilliam Hyder, M, Head, married, age 60, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: gardener and domestic servant
10SandhillMark Hutchings, M, Head, married, age 55, born Radipole, Dorset; occupation: farmer
10TurksFrances Luck, F, Head, widowed, age 40, born Rotherfield, Sussex
10TurksCharles Hyder, M, Head, married, age 36, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: gardener and domestic servant
10Copyhold FarmGeorge Taylor, M, Head, married, age 58, born Withyham, Sussex; occupation: farmer
11CopyholdFrank Martin Winter, M, Head, married, age 23, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation Carter
11Hamsell FarmThomas Pratt, M, Head, married, age 69, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer
11Hamsell FarmAlfred Thomas Pratt, M, Head, age 23, born Rotherfield, Sussex
11Hamsell ManorJames Bennett, M, Head, married, age 37, born Tonbridge, Kent, occupation: gardener
11Eridge [Ivy Cottage]John Kirby Pain, M, Head, married, age 53, born Banbury, Oxfordshire; occupation: corn merchant and farmer
12Crown CornerCaroline Miles, F, Head, single, age 69, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: living on own means
12Steel BridgeWilliam Butcher, M, Head, married, age 26, born Horsmonden, Kent, occupation: grocer
12Steel BridgeGeorge Piddlesden, M, Head, married, age 71, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm bailiff
12Hamsell LodgeSamuel Wickens, M, Head, married, age 43, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation General Labourer
12Hamsell Manor CottageStephen Judd, M, Head, married, age 30, born Orsett, Essex; occupation: coachman
12Hamsell Manor StablesWilliam Greygoose, M, Head, single, age 31, born Shady Camps, Suffolk; occupation: groom
12Bath CottageJames King, M, Head, widowed, age 56, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
12Bath CottageNelson Goldsmith, M, Head, married, age 36, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
13Stitches FarmRobert Coad, M, Head, married, age 33, born Launceston, Cornwall; occupation: farmer
13Stitches CottageJoseph Jeffery, M, Head, married, age 66, born Buxted, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
13Stitches CottageWilliam Saunders, M, Head, married, age 45, born Heathfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
13Danegate CottagesAnn Martin, F, Head, widowed, age 72, born Rotherfield, Sussex
13Danegate CottagesJohn Thos Heasman, M, Head, married, age 31, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: carter
14Danegate CottagesObediah Hall, M, Head, married, age 37, born Motts, Withyham, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
14Danegate CottagesWilliam Hyder, M, Head, married, age 49, born Withyham, Sussex; occupation: general labourer
14Ham FarmWillm N Coyfe, M, Head, married, age 33, born London; occupation: living on own means
14Stone WallGeorge Thos Sands, M, Head, married, age 50, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
15Stone WallJames Weston, M, Head, married, age 68, born Mayfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
16Green Hedges FarmJohn Rogers, M, Head, married, age 52, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farmer
16Spratts BottomHenry Martin, M, Head, married, age 62, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
16Spratts BottomJohn Summer, M, Head, married, age 35, born Rotherfield, Sussex; occupation: farm labourer

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