1825 list of Cottages and occupants made when rents were re-assessed for the North estate. Information came from East Kent Archives (Reference U471/E49).
Cottages at Elsfield
No. 1 Narroway: Man and wife. 4 children aged 17, 13, 10, 8.
Cottage with one chamber. The tenants are not parishioners.
No. 2 Durham: Man and wife. 4 children at home and one grandchild aged 28, 20, 18, 12, 9, 4. Rents of Lord Guilford. Have garden. One bedroom, which wants ceiling.
No. 3 Lock: Man and wife. 4 children aged 22, 18, 12, 8. There is one bedroom occupied by the 2 sons of 22 and 18 and the two girls of 12 and 8. The father and mother sleep in a back room on the ground. There is no staircase. Another room might be made over the back room. The windows want enlarging.
No. 4 Porter: An aged widow. There is a sitting room and chamber over it. It is a wretched house in very bad repair.
No. 5 Wm North: Man and wife. 4 children aged 7, 4, 2, 1. A good cottage with one living room and one chamber, which might be extended (?) as the family increases. Rents of the farmer.
No. 6 J. Gurdon: Man and wife. 3 children aged 4, 2, 1. Good cottage. Sitting room and one chamber. Rents of Ld. Guilford.
No. 7 W. Phillips: Man and wife. Good cottage. A living room and one chamber.
No. 8 Gammon: Widower. 6 children aged 20, 17, 12, 10, 8, 4.
No. 9 Taylor: Man and wife. 4 children aged 13, 10, 7, 3. A good cottage. Living room and one chamber with three beds in it. Another chamber might be made over the house. The roof wants ceiling. Rents to Ld Guilford.
No. 10 ? Clay?: Man and wife. 2 children aged 6 and 2. Good cottage. Living room and chamber.
No. 11 Phillips: A widow and grown up daughter. The cottage consists of one room in very bad repair. A garden. No rents.
No. 12 Sneeth: Parish Clk. Widow. Mother and 3 children aged 20, 16, 14. A good cottage and two chambers and garden.
No. 13 Wakelin: Man and wife. Father. 3 children aged 6, 3, 1. Good cottage with two chambers which wants ceiling and staircase replacing
(Nos. 14, 15 and 16): These three rent of Mr and Mrs Butler(?).
No. 14 Tolly: Man and wife. 5 children aged 17, 14, 9, 6, 4. One bedroom which might easily be divided and a staircase made.
No. 15 Gurden: Man and wife and child. Good cottage and sufficient bedrooms.
No. 16 Skitmore: Man and wife and family. Not parishioners. A good cottage with sufficient bedrooms.
No. 17 Humphries: Humphries’s son and his wife have a bedroom to themselves. John Humphries and wife. 4 children ages 20, 16, 13, 8 sleep in one room. Rent of Mr Batler.
No. 18 Ford: Widow. 5 children aged 24, 16, 13, 8, 4. All in one bedroom. Cottage in very bad repair.
No. 19 Munday: Widow, married son and daughter. 4 children aged 8, 7, 5, 2. All in one bedroom which wants ceiling. Not parishioners.
No. 20 J. Clay: Man and wife. 6 children. All in one bedroom.
No. 21 R. Harries: Man and wife, grown daughter and 1 grandchild aged 11. All in one bedroom.
No. 22 Heagher: Widow, married son and daughter. 2 children aged 5 and 2. All live in one small room out of repair.
No. 23 Croton: Man and wife. Married son and daughter. All live and sleep in one upstairs room together in very bad repair. No rent.
No. 24 Maul: Widow. Lives in an upstairs room in very bad repair.
No. 25 Harrison: A blind widow lives in one room in very bad repair.
Nos. 21, 22, 23 and 24: One building called the College. Rented by the farmers of Ld Guilford.
No. 26 Richards: Mother, son and wife. Good cottage and sufficient bedrooms.
Nos. 27, 28 and 29: These tenements constitute what is supposed to have been formerly the Vicarage Houses.
No. 27 Cross: Man and wife, married son and wife and 1 child. One bedroom. Cottage in bad repair.
No. 28 Moby: Man and wife. A living room and bedroom in very bad repair.
No. 29 J. Harris: Man and wife. A living and one bedroom in bad repair.
Parish School
There are 12 children put to school by Mrs Oglander and there are 8 more which want education. 2p a week is paid for children who read only and 4p by those who are taught to work.
Sunday School
Mrs Oglander contributes £2 and the Clergyman has usually given £1. All the children of the parish may attend. There is a great want of books at the Parish School.
Item:
The Clerk’s son proposed to be apprenticed by subscription.
The footpath from Oxford stopped without permission from anybody.
Application from J. Clay for a ?
Rents according to new leases commencing 5th April 1825
| Tenant names | A.R.P
(acres, roods and poles) |
Annual rents | ||
| 1799
£.s.d |
1820 | |||
| John Butler | 242 acres | 280.0.7 | 219.18.0 | 300 |
| William Butler | 385 acres | 357.1.27 | 350.0.0 | 440 |
| Samuel Tagg | 330 acres | 335.3.27 | 300.0.0 | 400 |
| Richard Holley | 220 acres | 151.3.23 | 200.0.0 | 290 |
| £1065.18s.0d | £1438 | |||
| John Gurdon | 63.16 acres | 73.1.1.5 | 38.0.0 | |
| Mrs Jane Oglander | 7.2.29 | 21.0.0 | ||
| John Weyland Esq. | 28.0.8 | 15.0.0 | ||
| John Beckley (Fishery) | 5.0.0 | |||
| The several cottages | 22.17.6 | |||
| £1234.0.39 | £1191.15s.6d | |||