 In 1856 Slowwe House descended down through the Hodges family to the Reverend John Sayer, Vicar of Arlingham when he married Elizabeth Hodges, and subsequently to their son, also John Sayer.When the latter died in 1886, Slowwe House passed into the ownership of Mr Carter

After William I carried out the first census of England and published in the Domesday Book in 1086, various other censuses took place, but it was the passing of the Census Act 1800 that enabled the first Census of England, Scotland and Wales to be undertaken.The census was carried out in 1801 and every ten years thereafter.