Top surnames from the 1881 census in Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire

Lower Gravenhurst is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Bedfordshire

Registration districts were originally created for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, rather than specifically for the census. In many cases, registration districts were broadly equivalent to parishes, but not necessarily so.

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname Total Frequency Index
PLOWMAN1316.45573,250.00
ODELL911.39241,551.72
RUTLAND67.59492,500.00
WHITMORE67.5949869.57
HOPKINS56.3291105.04
MANN56.3291120.19
CHAMBERLAIN56.3291232.56
REDMAN56.3291480.77
DENNIS45.0633170.94
BURLEY45.0633533.33
FISHER45.063343.24
MARSHALL22.531615.09
WADE22.531663.29
CLARK11.26584.21
ROBERTS11.26583.36
PARISH11.265881.97
KINGSLEY11.2658714.29

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
PLOWMAN0.08793250.0000
RUTLAND0.08792500.0000
ODELL0.08791551.7241
WHITMORE0.0879869.5652
KINGSLEY0.0879714.2857
BURLEY0.0879533.3333
REDMAN0.0879480.7692
CHAMBERLAIN0.0879232.5581
DENNIS0.0879170.9402
MANN0.0879120.1923
HOPKINS0.0879105.0420
PARISH0.087981.9672
WADE0.087963.2911
FISHER0.087943.2432
MARSHALL0.087915.0943
CLARK0.08794.2123
ROBERTS0.08793.3647

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 79 people called PLOWMAN in Lower Gravenhurst at the time of the 1881 census.

The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 3250.0000 in Lower Gravenhurst means that 3250.0000% of the people in Lower Gravenhurst on census day were called PLOWMAN.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called PLOWMAN in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called PLOWMAN as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called PLOWMAN here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called PLOWMAN here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.08 in Lower Gravenhurst means that you are 0.08 times as likely to find someone with the surname of PLOWMAN in Lower Gravenhurst than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Lower Gravenhurst in 1881

(including typos, unknowns and the ones we don't have any data for!)

BURLEY (4)  CHAMBERLAIN (5)  CLARK (1)  DENNIS (4)  FISHER (4)  HOPKINS (5)  KINGSLEY (1)  MANN (5)  MARSHALL (2)  ODELL (9)  PARISH (1)  PLOWMAN (13)  QUENBY (1)  REDMAN (5)  ROBERTS (1)  RUTLAND (6)  TOMASON (1)  TITMAS (3)  WADE (2)  WHITMORE (6) 

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