Top surnames from the 1881 census in Norwell Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire

Norwell Woodhouse is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Nottinghamshire

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
ROSE1416.0920217.05
RENSHAW910.34481,097.56
HENTON78.04604,117.65
CARTWRIGHT66.8966180.72
WYLDE66.89663,333.33
TAYLOR55.74718.99
PEARCE55.747162.58
TALBOT55.7471230.41
WIGHTMAN55.7471877.19
MOSLEY33.4483365.85
HAZARD22.29891,333.33
HAWLEY22.2989235.29
THOMPSON22.29897.67
CHAPPELL22.2989136.05
STOCKS11.1494105.26
HOTTON11.14942,000.00
TURNER11.14944.13
SWALLOW11.1494113.64
MASTIN11.14941,428.57
WHITE11.14943.58

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
HENTON0.09874117.6471
WYLDE0.09873333.3333
HOTTON0.09872000.0000
MASTIN0.09871428.5714
HAZARD0.09871333.3333
RENSHAW0.09871097.5610
WIGHTMAN0.0987877.1930
MOSLEY0.0987365.8537
HAWLEY0.0987235.2941
TALBOT0.0987230.4147
ROSE0.0987217.0543
CARTWRIGHT0.0987180.7229
CHAPPELL0.0987136.0544
SWALLOW0.0987113.6364
STOCKS0.0987105.2632
PEARCE0.098762.5782
TAYLOR0.09878.9863
THOMPSON0.09877.6746
TURNER0.09874.1288
WHITE0.09873.5753

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 87 people called HENTON in Norwell Woodhouse 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 4117.6471 in Norwell Woodhouse means that 4117.6471% of the people in Norwell Woodhouse on census day were called HENTON.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called HENTON 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 HENTON 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 HENTON 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 HENTON here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.09 in Norwell Woodhouse means that you are 0.09 times as likely to find someone with the surname of HENTON in Norwell Woodhouse than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Norwell Woodhouse in 1881

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

BROWNSHEAD (1)  CARTWRIGHT (6)  CHAPPELL (2)  FOTHERBY (1)  HAWLEY (2)  HAZARD (2)  HEBBLEWAITE (1)  HENTON (7)  HOTTON (1)  IEDES (1)  MASTIN (1)  MOSLEY (3)  PEARCE (5)  PIDD (2)  RENSHAW (9)  ROSELAID (1)  ROSE (14)  STOCKS (1)  SWALLOW (1)  TALBOT (5)  TAYLOR (5)  THOMPSON (2)  TURNER (1)  WHITE (1)  WIGHTMAN (5)  WYLDE (6)  WILLMOT (1) 

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