1851 Census

1851 Census Summary

The 1851 Census (John Mumford was the enumerator as he was in 1841) shows there were 754 people (396 male & 358 female). John took a different route this time firstly to Henham Mill, then Old Mead Road, past a railway crossing, out to Little Henham, across to Henham Lodge, through Wood End Green, then into the village.

He found 160 inhabited and 8 uninhabited houses. The identifiable livelihoods were ‘Joseph Bush, miller at Henham Mill; William Packer, railway inspector of Old Mead Road; Edmund Cox, railgate keeper of Railway Crossing; Charles Robbinson, railway porter of Henham village; William & John Canning, farmers employing 39 people; Charles Marshall, farmer of Little Henham with 200 acres employing 8 men & 4 boys; William Smith, farmer of Little Henham with 500 acres Peter Cowell, farmer of Henham Lodge with 408 acres; Charles Titchmarsh, farmer of Wood End Green with 107 acres; James Bush, farmer of Henham village with 220 acres employing 6 men & 6 boys; George Collin, farmer of Parsonage Farm with 215 acres employing 17 men & a number of boys; James Kirkby, farmer’s bailiff/steward of The Jock Farm with 230 acres employing 15 men & a number of boys; John Houghton, farmer with 7 acres; John Turner of Wood End, carpenter employing 2 men; William Turner of Henham village, carpenter employing both Charles & George Turner as apprentices; Alfred Little, carpenter; George Turner, carpenter and pauper; Frank & Stephen Snow of Wood End, bricklayers; Simpson Snow, bricklayer; Richard Davey & Henry Patrick both of Wood End, Chelsea Pensioners; William Markwell of Wood End, butcher;

The cordwainers (shoemakers/leather workers) were – Mathew Holgate of Wood End, employing 3 men & 1 boy; Thomas Holgate employing 2 men & 2 boys; James Bush of Wood End; John Knight; Joseph Francis; Ebenezer Houghton; Henry Stock; Benjamin Ward employing 7 men & 2 boys; Kitty Dennison of Wood End, schoolmistress; Anna Hallibury, schoolmistress; Ann Snow, schoolmistress; Mary Phipps, schoolmistress; James Donelly, grocer; William Phipps, grocer assisted by Sarah Phipps & William Mahon; Peter Dennison, dealer; Ann Hard, seamstress; Peter Gardner, warehouseman; his wife Hester, a dressmaker; his son George a warehouse boy; Edward Mead, carrier; James Bush, carrier; William Bright, carrier; Henry Chipperfield, wheelwright; his wife Amy, dressmaker; son Charles was an errand boy and son Thomas was a footman; George Head was a groom/gardener; indecipherable Curate of Henham; George Orme, Independent Minister; John Dixon, thatcher; Philip, Levi, and another of another Dixon family, all thatchers; James Cox, Essex Policeman; Elizabeth Westwood & Charlotte Brand, straw-bonnet makers; Elizabeth Barker, licensed victualler; Elizabeth Heard, innkeeper; John Titchmarsh, veterinary surgeon; William Hayden aged 75, blacksmith who employed 2 men and a boy, his wife Ann aged 69, his son John also a blacksmith aged 39 plus a granddaughter; James Hayden was shown as 46, Sophia his wife & dressmaker as 43; James Bright, blacksmith.

The remaining men and older boys were all shown as agricultural workers.

This part are people born in Henham but living elsewhere on Census night