Friday, 30 December 2011

Toppesfield, Essex 1811 Census

Village sign from The Green Man pub website:
www.thegreenmantoppesfield.co.uk
The Essex Record Office has made me very happy by scanning and digitising their parish registers on their pay-per-view website and I have been spending a great deal of time following some of my neglected lines. In the process of doing so, I've found that a lot of my family from Stambourne, Sible Hedingham, Castle Hedingham and Great Yeldham all liked having their children baptised at Toppesfield, and have managed to fill in many missing dates in my tree now that I've finally discovered the baptisms where I didn't expect to find them.  In the process of this work, I've also managed to find out that a colleague, whose job my husband is currently on secondment to cover, is a cousin with family still in the area.

One of my other findings has been two censuses of Toppesfield, taken in 1801 and 1811, and contained in the back of the burial register, so I thought I'd transcribe them for anyone looking for their Toppesfield ancestors. Censuses were taken in those years, but they were supposed to be a population schedule only -- just the numbers of males and females in each village -- but Gilbert Malcolm, Curate of Toppesfield, also gave the names of the heads of households, and the occupations: a real treat for the researcher!


A Correct Account of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Toppesfield in the Year of our Lord 1811

Farmers
Males
Females
ASHBY Richard
2
2
BROWN William
1
2
DARBY John
8
5
DAVIE Isaac
4
2
DOWSETT Daniel
2
2
ELEY Thomas
5
5
FREEBORN John
6
4
HARDY Mary
3
3
KENYON William
2
2
MARSH Edward
3
1
MARSH Isaac
4
4
MEAD Rachel
2
2
MEGGS Benjamin
2
1
NUNN HARDY James
2
2
PIPER Isaac
3
1
QUY Mary
-
1
RATCLIFFE Samuel
3
5
SMITH George
6
4
STEWARD Thomas
3
4
TEADER John
4
2
TYLER George
1
2
UNWIN Ralph
4
3
Totals
70
59



Labourers Families
Males
Females
ALLEN Joshua Senr
5
3
ALLEN John Junr
3
1
ALLEN John
1
2
ARGENT Jonathan Senr
1
4
ARGENT Samuel Junr
2
2
ARGENT Daniel Junr
1
2
ARGENT William Senr
2
2
ARGENT Thomas Junr
1
1
ARGENT Wm Junr
1
1
ARGENT Samuel Senr
2
2
ARGENT William Junr
3
3
ARGENT Christopher Junr
4
1
ARGENT Joseph
5
5
ASHBY Humphrey
2
1
ATTERTON Robert
3
3
ARDLEY Joseph
1
4
AVES Joseph
6
2
BARRELL Thomas
3
3
BARREL William
1
1
BARCHAM James
3
1
BARNARD John Senr
1
2
BARNARD Thos Junr
5
1
BASHAM Hannah
1
3
BROWN Thomas
1
1
BRAGG John
3
3
BUTCHER John Senr
1
6
BUTHER John Junr
2
1
BYFORD William
1
1
CLEMENTS Edward
1
1
COOK William
2
6
CROSS Mary
1
2
CURTIS Elizabeth
1
1
DAVESON John
2
2
DAINES James
5
3
DAINES William
2
2
DAINES Peter Senr
1
1
DAINES George Junr
2
2
DAINES Mary
1
2
DARBY John
4
5
DORKIN William Senr
2
3
DORKIN Joseph Junr
3
1
DORKIN Wm Junr
1
1
DORKIN Ann
3
2
DOWSETT Elizabeth
-
4
ELSDON Joseph
2
3
FINCH Richard
2
4
FROST Thomas
4
4
GOLDEN Mary
-
1
HALES James
3
4
HARDY John Pool st.
2
2
HARDY Jane
1
1
HARDY John
1
1
HARDY Joseph
3
2
HARRINGTON Joseph
2
6
HURRY John
1
3
INCH Samuel
3
3
KEMP John
5
3
LANHAM Wm
1
2
LANCASTOR Thomas
3
2
LAPPARD John
1
1
LAURENCE John
2
1
LEWSY John Senr
1
2
LEWSY Joseph Junr
3
2
LEWSY William Junr
1
1
MARTIN William
1
4
MARTIN George
2
5
MAYNARD John
3
5
MIDSON Robert Senr
7
2
MIDSON Robert Junr
1
1
MIDSON Samuel
5
2
PANNELL William Senr
2
3
PANNELL Thomas Junr
3
2
PARSTLEY Joseph
5
2
PERRY Joseph
2
3
PIPER Edward
2
1
PRIOER William
1
2
QUY George
2
3
RAILTON Edward
1
1
RAWLIN Joseph
4
3
REED Ann
2
5
REED Stephen
3
5
REDGEWELL Zechariah
3
3
RUGGLES James Senr
5
4
RUGGLES John Junr
3
1
RUGGLES John
1
1
RUGGLES Francis
4
2
RUSSELL John
4
4
SMITH William
3
2
TARBOURN John
5
1
VILATE William
2
1
WILKIN Samuel
WRIGHT George
1
4
3
1
WRIGHT William
1
1
WRIGHT Wm Junr
1
2
WYBRO John
1
2
Total Number of Labourers Families
221
223



Trades & Handy Craft
M
F
ALLEN James
Carpenter
1
1
BURLEIGH Wm
Taylor
6
3
BURDER Robert
Butcher
3
2
BURLEIGH John
Innkeeper
5
5
COPSEY George
Wheeler & Baker
4
2
CLERK John
Schoolmaster
1

CROSS John
Blacksmith
5
3
DOWSETT Wm
Carpenter
8
3
DOWSETT Joseph
Do
2
3
DOWSETT Henry
Do
2
2
HARDY Thomas
Blacksmith
3
2
HARDY Joseph
Do
4
2
HARDY John
Do
1
4
HARDY Joseph
Shoemaker
1
3
HARRINGTON Pheobe
Do
4
9
HART Samuel
Glover
2
1
HASELER George
Thatcher
2
2
HASELER John
Do
2
1
HUTTON Thos
Blacksmith
4
2
LETCH Humphrey
Shopkeeper
3
3
OFFORD Thomas
Miler [sic]
2
2
OFFORD Daniel
Do
1
1
PERCIVAL Wm
Taylor
1
5
SHELLY Philip
Shopkeeper
2
4
SMITH George
Sadler
3
3
TEADER John Junr
Miller
2
-
WASH James
Shoemaker
4
1
WEBB Thomas
Wheeler
2
1
Totals
80
70
Not included in above Class:


BULL Ann

-
4
G. MALCOLM
Curate
4
5


4
9

Number of Farmers: 22
     & Families of Do: 70 Males & 59 Females

Number of Tradesmen: 28
     & Families of Do: 80 Males & 70 Females

Labourers & Families: 95 Families
     Number of Males 221 Females 223

2 Families
Not included in the above Classes 4 Males & 9 Females

147 Families
Houses Inhabited: 133
Houses Uninhabited: 6

Number of Males: 375
Females: 361
Total: 736
Gilbert MALCOLM
Curate
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