Top surnames from the 1881 census in Graveley, Cambridgeshire

Graveley is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Cambridgeshire

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
CHAMBERLAIN2110.0962371.02
SANDFORD136.2500878.38
CORN136.25008,666.67
WARD125.769226.41
STONE125.769279.79
CROW115.2885350.32
FOWLER94.326975.76
PAYNE94.326948.08
DILLEY83.84621,212.12
LINE83.8462808.08
FISHER83.846232.85
BOWLES73.3654205.88
LEWIS52.40389.14
WALDEN52.4038328.95
MARSHALL41.923111.46
BAXTER41.923132.26
MILES41.923132.60
CRESWELL31.4423454.55
COLLETT31.4423112.36
FORD31.442314.81
MILLER31.44238.06
HEATHCOTE31.4423178.57
CROOK31.442350.25
ABBOTT20.961521.81
HOOPER20.961522.70
JACK20.961545.25
CHILDS20.961552.36
MILNER10.480820.96
WISE10.480823.04
JEFF10.4808434.78
TOMS10.480862.11
REDFERN10.480834.48
WRIGHT10.48081.50
COOPER10.48081.98
HULL10.480822.99

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
CORN0.212088666.6667
DILLEY0.212081212.1212
SANDFORD0.21208878.3784
LINE0.21208808.0808
CRESWELL0.21208454.5455
JEFF0.21208434.7826
CHAMBERLAIN0.21208371.0247
CROW0.21208350.3185
WALDEN0.21208328.9474
BOWLES0.21208205.8824
HEATHCOTE0.21208178.5714
COLLETT0.21208112.3596
STONE0.2120879.7872
FOWLER0.2120875.7576
TOMS0.2120862.1118
CHILDS0.2120852.3560
CROOK0.2120850.2513
PAYNE0.2120848.0769
JACK0.2120845.2489
REDFERN0.2120834.4828
FISHER0.2120832.8542
MILES0.2120832.5998
BAXTER0.2120832.2581
WARD0.2120826.4085
WISE0.2120823.0415
HULL0.2120822.9885
HOOPER0.2120822.7015
ABBOTT0.2120821.8103
MILNER0.2120820.9644
FORD0.2120814.8075
MARSHALL0.2120811.4646
LEWIS0.212089.1424
MILLER0.212088.0602
COOPER0.212081.9763
WRIGHT0.212081.4986

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 208 people called CORN in Graveley 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 8666.6667 in Graveley means that 8666.6667% of the people in Graveley on census day were called CORN.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called CORN 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 CORN 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 CORN 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 CORN here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.21 in Graveley means that you are 0.21 times as likely to find someone with the surname of CORN in Graveley than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Graveley in 1881

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

ABBOTT (2)  ALINGTON (1)  ARBORN (11)  BAXTER (4)  BOWLES (7)  CHAMBERLAIN (21)  CHILDS (2)  COLLETT (3)  COOPER (1)  CORN (13)  CRESWELL (3)  CROOK (3)  CROW (11)  DILLEY (8)  FISHER (8)  FORD (3)  FOWLER (9)  GEESON (4)  HARLOCK (1)  HARPUR (1)  HEATHCOTE (3)  HOOPER (2)  HULL (1)  JACK (2)  JEFF (1)  LEWIS (5)  LINE (8)  MARSHALL (4)  MILES (4)  MILLER (3)  MILNER (1)  MORBY (1)  PAYNE (9)  PICKIN (1)  REDFERN (1)  SANDFORD (13)  STONE (12)  THACKRAY (1)  TOMS (1)  WALDEN (5)  WARD (12)  WISE (1)  WRIGHT (1) 

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