Top surnames from the 1881 census in Great Edstone, Yorkshire

Great Edstone is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Yorkshire

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
THOMPSON1412.389441.36
CLARK108.849629.45
HODGSON97.9646114.94
HUMBLE87.07961,481.48
SMITH65.30973.76
BREWSTER43.5398366.97
RUSSELL43.539829.01
RICHARDSON32.654915.59
ASHTON32.654954.15
GARNETT21.7699142.86
SANDERSON21.769942.83
TURNER10.88503.18
DENNIS10.885029.94
BOWES10.885096.15
PEARSON10.88507.62
YOUNG10.88504.12
HUGILL10.8850357.14
FRANK10.8850208.33
SHEPHERD10.885012.08
BOOTH10.88508.97
NIXON10.885029.07
WARRINER10.8850303.03
STRICKLAND10.8850111.11
FLETCHER10.88507.75
SAVAGE10.885023.04

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
HUMBLE1,481.4887.0796
BREWSTER366.9743.5398
HUGILL357.1410.8850
WARRINER303.0310.8850
FRANK208.3310.8850
GARNETT142.8621.7699
HODGSON114.9497.9646
STRICKLAND111.1110.8850
BOWES96.1510.8850
ASHTON54.1532.6549
SANDERSON42.8321.7699
THOMPSON41.361412.3894
DENNIS29.9410.8850
CLARK29.45108.8496
NIXON29.0710.8850
RUSSELL29.0143.5398
SAVAGE23.0410.8850
RICHARDSON15.5932.6549
SHEPHERD12.0810.8850
BOOTH8.9710.8850
FLETCHER7.7510.8850
PEARSON7.6210.8850
YOUNG4.1210.8850
SMITH3.7665.3097
TURNER3.1810.8850

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 8 people called HUMBLE in Great Edstone 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 7.0796 in Great Edstone means that 7.0796% of the people in Great Edstone on census day were called HUMBLE.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called HUMBLE 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 HUMBLE 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 HUMBLE 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 HUMBLE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 1,481.48 in Great Edstone means that you are 1,481.48 times as likely to find someone with the surname of HUMBLE in Great Edstone than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Great Edstone in 1881

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

ASHTON (3)  BOOTH (1)  BOWES (1)  BREWSTER (4)  CLARK (10)  CONNING (18)  CUSSONS (8)  DENNIS (1)  FIRBANK (1)  FLETCHER (1)  FRANK (1)  GARNETT (2)  HODGSON (9)  HUGILL (1)  HUMBLE (8)  LOWNSBROUGH (1)  NIXON (1)  PEARSON (1)  RICHARDSON (3)  RUSSELL (4)  SANDERSON (2)  SAVAGE (1)  SHEPHERD (1)  SLEIGHTHOLM (4)  SLEIGHTHOLME (1)  SMITH (6)  SONLEY (1)  STRICKLAND (1)  THOMPSON (14)  TURNER (1)  WARRINER (1)  YOUNG (1) 

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