The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 277 people called GILLSON in Kirby Bellars 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 1875.0000 in Kirby Bellars means that
1875.0000% of the people in Kirby Bellars on census day were called GILLSON.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called GILLSON
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 GILLSON 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 GILLSON 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 GILLSON here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.28 in Kirby Bellars means that you are 0.28 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of GILLSON in Kirby Bellars than you would be in the whole of the UK.