Top surnames from the 1881 census in Gumley, Leicestershire

Gumley is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Leicestershire

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
JELLEY198.18973,114.75
CHAPMAN104.310330.35
SIMONS93.8793294.12
MONK93.8793184.80
BLOOD73.0172752.69
HUBBARD73.0172124.11
WHITBREAD73.0172752.69
WHITMORE73.0172343.14
WELLS73.017236.27
MATTHEWS62.586229.64
WESTON62.586263.42
STURGESS62.5862451.13
ARCHER41.724141.67
FREESTONE41.7241400.00
CHALLIS41.7241272.11
COLEMAN31.293125.95
BROWN31.29311.96
HURST31.293136.23
HARPER31.293120.20
WILSON31.29312.82
COWLES31.2931535.71
BROOKS31.293113.23
NEWELL31.293181.74
GREEN31.29314.59
DAIN20.8621952.38
HAMMOND20.862115.14
GOODMAN20.862129.54
FARMER20.862127.59
BINGLEY20.8621317.46
DALE20.862120.41
TYLER10.431014.60
JAMES10.43102.19
ELDRED10.4310147.06
WEBB10.43103.18
LANGLEY10.431019.65
TIMSON10.4310138.89
BLAND10.431020.79
DOBSON10.43109.78
PATRICK10.431021.65
MERCER10.431016.42
HACKNEY10.431099.01
LUCAS10.43109.32
WARWICK10.431031.15
EMERY10.431019.72
HUNT10.43103.25
HARDY10.43107.19
COUSIN10.4310222.22
MEACHEM10.43101,250.00
LASS10.43102,500.00
FORBES10.431012.87

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
JELLEY0.232323114.7541
LASS0.232322500.0000
MEACHEM0.232321250.0000
DAIN0.23232952.3810
BLOOD0.23232752.6882
WHITBREAD0.23232752.6882
COWLES0.23232535.7143
STURGESS0.23232451.1278
FREESTONE0.23232400.0000
WHITMORE0.23232343.1373
BINGLEY0.23232317.4603
SIMONS0.23232294.1176
CHALLIS0.23232272.1088
COUSIN0.23232222.2222
MONK0.23232184.8049
ELDRED0.23232147.0588
TIMSON0.23232138.8889
HUBBARD0.23232124.1135
HACKNEY0.2323299.0099
NEWELL0.2323281.7439
WESTON0.2323263.4249
ARCHER0.2323241.6667
WELLS0.2323236.2694
HURST0.2323236.2319
WARWICK0.2323231.1526
CHAPMAN0.2323230.3490
MATTHEWS0.2323229.6443
GOODMAN0.2323229.5421
FARMER0.2323227.5862
COLEMAN0.2323225.9516
PATRICK0.2323221.6450
BLAND0.2323220.7900
DALE0.2323220.4082
HARPER0.2323220.2020
EMERY0.2323219.7239
LANGLEY0.2323219.6464
MERCER0.2323216.4204
HAMMOND0.2323215.1400
TYLER0.2323214.5985
BROOKS0.2323213.2275
FORBES0.2323212.8700
DOBSON0.232329.7752
LUCAS0.232329.3197
HARDY0.232327.1942
GREEN0.232324.5921
HUNT0.232323.2457
WEBB0.232323.1797
WILSON0.232322.8156
JAMES0.232322.1944
BROWN0.232321.9617

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 232 people called JELLEY in Gumley 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 3114.7541 in Gumley means that 3114.7541% of the people in Gumley on census day were called JELLEY.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called JELLEY 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 JELLEY 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 JELLEY 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 JELLEY here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.23 in Gumley means that you are 0.23 times as likely to find someone with the surname of JELLEY in Gumley than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Gumley in 1881

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

ARCHER (4)  BINGLEY (2)  BLAND (1)  BLOOD (7)  BOOTHEWAY (7)  BOOTHWAY (1)  BROOKS (3)  BROWN (3)  BUNEY (8)  BURDILL (4)  CACHELL (1)  CATRELL (1)  CHALLIS (4)  CHAPMAN (10)  COLEMAN (3)  COUSIN (1)  COWLES (3)  DALE (2)  DAIN (2)  DIMBLE (1)  DOBSON (1)  ELDRED (1)  EMERY (1)  FARMER (2)  FORBES (1)  FREESTON (2)  FREESTONE (4)  GERNIE (1)  GOODMAN (2)  GREEN (3)  HACKNEY (1)  HAMMOND (2)  HARDY (1)  HARPER (3)  HUBBARD (7)  HUNT (1)  HURST (3)  JAMES (1)  JELLEY (19)  JESSON (12)  LANGLEY (1)  LASS (1)  LOOMES (4)  LUCAS (1)  MATTHEWS (6)  MEACHEM (1)  MERCER (1)  MONK (9)  NEWELL (3)  PATRICK (1)  PIT (1)  SIMONS (9)  STURGESS (6)  SULMAN (1)  SYMMINGTON (10)  TAILBY (4)  TAMRAN (1)  TARRSTON (1)  TILLOWS (1)  TIMSON (1)  TYLER (1)  WARWICK (1)  WEBB (1)  WELLS (7)  WESTON (6)  WHITBREAD (7)  WHITMORE (7)  WILSON (3) 

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