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A History of Newmarket Farm in Twelve Objects

Object 4; Census Records

• Who lived in Newmarket Farm?
  • 1841–1911 – Census records
  • Also, books on Kingston near Lewes
    • Published & unpublished;
  • As well as, Balsdean, Falmer, Lewes, Rottingdean, Woodingdean
    Electoral registers
  • School records

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Object 4; Census Records

1861 Kingston-near-Lewes Census


Parish: Kingston
Road, Street, &c.,       | Name and Surname | Age | Rank, Profession,
and No. or Name of House | of each Person   |     | or Occupation
Newmarket Hill           | John Rich        | 48  | Ag Labourer
"         "              | Anne Rich        | 38  |
"         "              | Fanny Rich       | 18  |
"         "              | Isaiah Rich      | 14  | Plough Boy
"         "              | Charles Rich     | 11  |
"         "              | James Rich       | 9   |
"         "              | Sarah Rich       | 6   |
"         "              | George Rich      | 2   |
"         "              | Alfred Rich      | 6   |


• The ten known Newmarket Farm tenants – from 1830 to 1942 – were all agricultural labourers (except for a farm bailiff and his family for a short time in 1925).

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“A Village in Sussex: The History of Kingston-near-Lewes” Charles Cooper; p. 326

• In 1861 John and Ann Rich lived in a labourer’s cottage at Newmarket Farm…
• They had seven children.
• There had been eight but one had died of rickets before 1861.
• Three more children died in 1862 and 1863;
  • all were infected with scrofula, a tubercular disease of the skin.
• In 1864 Ann Rich died of consumption.
• Her husband lived for a little longer and then died of debility and general exhaustion.

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