1851 Census

Transcribed by Norman Ratcliffe of Happy Families Ancestral Research, GU12 6EA. It can been downloaded below.

Sir Robert Peel introduced the Police Force during his period of Prime Minister from 1841 to 1846. This census shows there was a lodger living in Thursley Street with Mrs Mary Keen, the Grocer's widow. He was Edmund Woodcock, Police Constable, from Chelmsford. It appears that he was the first village policeman for Thursley. 140 years later, Thursley lost its village 'Bobby', Norman Ratcliffe (see above).