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Farmers of the Hampshire Downs
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Farmers of the Hampshire Downs
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Census returns, maintained by The National Archives, can be viewed
at the Ancestry family history website.
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| Name and relation to Head of household |
Marital Status | Age | Occupation | Birth Place | |
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| 1861 census – Litchfield [Grange], Ashe, Hampshire Reference: RG9/712 (folio 160, p. 13) | |||||
| George Whistler | Head | Widower | 58 | Farmer of 660 acres employing 18 men and 3 boys |
Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| Richard Whistler | Son | Unmarried | 25 | Farmer’s Son | Basingstoke |
| Charles Whistler | Son | Unm | 23 | Farmer’s Son | Basingstoke |
| Septimus Whistler | Son | Unm | 17 | Farmer’s Son | Basingstoke |
| Edward Godden | Servant | Married | 57 | Agricultural Labourer | Sherfield |
| Mary Godden | Servant | Married | 43 | General Servant | Kingsclere |
| George Godden | Servant | Unm | 18 | Agricultural Labourer | Sherfield |
| John Godden | Servant | 12 | Agricultural Labourer | Sherfield | |
| 1871 census – Winkfield Park Lower Farm, Berkshire Reference: RG10/1295 (folio 44, p. 24) | |||||
| Richard Whistler | Head | Married | 35 | Farmer of 430 acres employing 10 men and 4 boys |
Basing, Hampshire |
| Sarah Whistler | Wife | Married | 32 | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Mary J Whistler | Daughter | 8 | Ashe, Hampshire | ||
| Rosa Whistler | Daughter | 6 | Ashe | ||
| Annie Whistler | Daughter | 5 | Ashe | ||
| Ellen Whistler | Daughter | 3 | Basing | ||
| Flora Whistler | Daughter | 1 | Winkfield, Berkshire | ||
| Jessie Whistler | Daughter | 4 months | Winkfield | ||
| Matthew Baker | Head | Married | 36 | Agricultural Labourer | Newnham, Hampshire |
| Mary Baker | Wife | Married | 30 | Dairy Woman | Wallop, Hampshire |
| Henry Taylor | Lodger | 13 | Cow Boy | Bray, Berkshire | |
| 1881 census – Winkfield, Berkshire Reference: RG11/1319 (folio 54, p. 18) | |||||
| Richard Whistler | Head | Married | 45 | Farmer of 457 acres employing 9 men and 4 boys |
Basing, Hampshire |
| Sarah Whistler | Wife | Married | 42 | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Rosa Whistler | Daughter | Unmarried | 16 | Ashe, Hampshire | |
| Ellen Whistler | Daughter | 13 | Basing, Hampshire | ||
| Flora Whistler | Daughter | 11 | Winkfield, Berkshire | ||
| Jessie Whistler | Daughter | 10 | Winkfield | ||
| Frank Whistler | Son | 7 | Winkfield | ||
| Carrie Whistler | Daughter | 6 | Winkfield | ||
| Charles Whistler | Son | 5 | Winkfield | ||
| At the time of the 1881 census, Richard and Sarah’s daughter, Annie Whistler, was living in Odiham, Hampshire, with the family of her aunt Mary, the older sister of Sarah, as documented in the census returns below. | |||||
The Vines Family in Census Returns Census returns, maintained by The National Archives, can be viewed
at the Ancestry family history website.
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| Name | Age | Occupation | Born in County? | ||
| 1841 census – Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire Reference: HO107/386/12 (folio 4, p. 2) | |||||
| Edward Vines | 40 | Mealman | N | ||
| Sarah Vines | 31 | N | |||
| Richard Vines | 8 | Y | |||
| Samuel Vines | 6 | Y | |||
| Mary Ann Vines | 5 | Y | |||
| Sarah Vines | 2 | Y | |||
| Sophia Vines | 6 months | Y | |||
| Mary Ann Mills | 17 | Ind. [Independent, living on own means] |
N | ||
| Note: On 8 April 1830
the parish register of Reading St Laurence recorded the wedding of
‘Edward Vines, a bachelor of Reading St Mary, and Sarah Mills, a minor of
the parish under the age of 21 years with consent of her natural and
lawful father Richard Mills’, by licence; witnesses: Richard Mills,
Mary Ann Mills, Elizabeth Mills
(parish register on CD transcribed by the Berkshire Family History Society).
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| Name and relation to Head of household |
Marital Status | Age | Occupation | Birth Place | |
| 1851 census – Sherfield Green, Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire
Reference: HO107/1681 (folio 347, p. 36) | |||||
| Edward Vines | Head | Widower | 51 | Mealman & Corn Dealer | Tilehurst, Berkshire |
| Edward Mills Vines | Son | Unmarried | 20 | " " | Sherfield, Hampshire |
| Richard Mills Vines | Son | Unm | 18 | " " | Sherfield, Hampshire |
| Samuel Mills Vines | Son | Unm | 16 | Clerk | Sherfield, Hampshire |
| Mary Ann Mills Vines | Daughter | Unm | 15 | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Alice Mills Vines | Daughter | 5 | Sherfield, Hampshire | ||
| Harriett Vines | Servant | Widow | 42 | House Servant | Greenham, Berkshire |
Edward’s daughters Sarah Mills Vines and Sophia Mills Vines are
shown in the next census return living with Edward’s older sister
Martha who married Thomas Walker, a London wine merchant
(information from
Vines family  webpage).
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| 1851 census – 38 Friar Street, St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire
Reference: HO107/1692 (folio 301, pp. 14–5) | |||||
| Martha Walker | Head | Widow | 60 | Lodging House Keeper | Reading, Berkshire |
| Martha V Walker | Daughter | Unmarried | 37 | School Mistress | London |
| Mary Walker | Granddaughter | 6 | Scholar | Reading, Berkshire | |
| Mary Gouldsmith | Visitor | Widow | 77 | Shoreditch, Middlesex | |
| Mary A Mackness | Visitor | 12 | Scholar | Wootten Bassett, Wiltshire | |
| Sarah M Vines | Niece | 12 | Scholar | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Sophia M Vines | Niece | 10 | Scholar | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Harriett Lawrence | Servant | Unmarried | 20 | General Servant | Reading, Berkshire |
| 1861 census – Sherfield Village, Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire Reference: RG9/710 (folio 81, p. 1) | |||||
| Edward Vines | Head | Widower | 61 | Miller and Farmer | Tilehurst, Berkshire |
| Sarah Mills Vines | Daughter | Unmarried | 22 | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Sophia Mills Vines | Daughter | Unm | 20 | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Caroline Poulin | Servant | Unm | 16 | Servant | Hartley Wintney, Hampshire |
| Notes:
Census day was 7 April 1861. A few months later, on 24 October,
Sarah Mills Vines married Richard Whistler. | |||||
| 1871 census – Turnpike Rd, Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire Reference: RG10/1236 (folio 103, p. 25) | |||||
| Edward Vines | Head | Widower | 71 | Retired Miller | Tilehurst, Berkshire |
| Sophia M Vines | Daughter | Unm | 30 | Grocer & General Dealer | Sherfield-on-Loddon |
| 1881 census – High St, Odiham, Hampshire Reference: RG11/1249 (folio 12, p. 17) | |||||
| John C Vines | Head | Married | 59 | Auctioneer & Valuer | Caversham, Oxfordshire |
| Mary A M Vines | Wife | Married | 45 | Sherfield, Hampshire | |
| Sarah Vines | Daughter | Unmarried | 20 | North Warnborough, Hampshire | |
| Helen G Vines | Daughter | 13 | Odiham, Hampshire | ||
| Clara J Vines | Daughter | 11 | Scholar | Odiham, Hampshire | |
| Joseph Vines | Son | 8 | Scholar | Odiham, Hampshire | |
| Charles J Vines | Son | 6 | Scholar | Odiham, Hampshire | |
| Alfred E Vines | Son | 5 | Scholar | Odiham, Hampshire | |
| Annie Whistler | Niece | 15 | Farmers Daughter | Litchfield Grange, Hampshire | |
| Note:
Mary Ann Mills Vines, the daughter of Edward Vines, married her
cousin John Charles Vines in 1857 (webpage:
Vines family ; website: FreeBMD).
Annie Whistler was the daughter of Mary’s sister Sarah.
The 1881 census form noted that thirteen-year-old Helen had disabilities. | |||||
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