Top surnames from the 1881 census in Willington, Bedfordshire

Willington is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Bedfordshire

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
SHARMAN197.6613555.56
LARKINS187.25812,432.43
PURSER187.25811,978.02
HART166.451675.65
MARTIN156.048424.55
WEBB145.645241.64
STOKES135.2419124.16
BURR114.4355552.76
CHURCH93.6290166.36
DAY83.225834.26
BROWN72.82264.28
SALE72.8226429.45
BALLS52.0161157.23
PRATT41.612928.07
DAWSON41.612914.63
PALMER31.209710.26
CHILDS31.209765.79
BARTRAM31.2097243.90
MEDLOCK31.2097789.47
NORMAN20.806517.41
RATCLIFFE20.806529.20
KENDALL20.806537.45
OLIVER20.806511.31
FARR20.806554.35
WALKER20.80652.41
WILLIAMSON20.80659.00
NOTTINGHAM20.8065303.03
HOUGHTON10.403211.53
BAKER10.40321.84
FRANCIS10.40326.77
SMITH10.40320.29
PELL10.403271.94
KIRBY10.403210.63
JOHNSON10.40321.20
PECK10.403223.87
GOLDSMITH10.403225.97
ELLIOTT10.40324.75
KING10.40321.85

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LARKINS0.252482432.4324
PURSER0.252481978.0220
MEDLOCK0.25248789.4737
SHARMAN0.25248555.5556
BURR0.25248552.7638
SALE0.25248429.4479
NOTTINGHAM0.25248303.0303
BARTRAM0.25248243.9024
CHURCH0.25248166.3586
BALLS0.25248157.2327
STOKES0.25248124.1643
HART0.2524875.6501
PELL0.2524871.9424
CHILDS0.2524865.7895
FARR0.2524854.3478
WEBB0.2524841.6419
KENDALL0.2524837.4532
DAY0.2524834.2612
RATCLIFFE0.2524829.1971
PRATT0.2524828.0702
GOLDSMITH0.2524825.9740
MARTIN0.2524824.5539
PECK0.2524823.8663
NORMAN0.2524817.4064
DAWSON0.2524814.6306
HOUGHTON0.2524811.5340
OLIVER0.2524811.3058
KIRBY0.2524810.6270
PALMER0.2524810.2634
WILLIAMSON0.252488.9969
FRANCIS0.252486.7705
ELLIOTT0.252484.7529
BROWN0.252484.2819
WALKER0.252482.4091
KING0.252481.8501
BAKER0.252481.8403
JOHNSON0.252481.2000
SMITH0.252480.2856

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 248 people called LARKINS in Willington 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 2432.4324 in Willington means that 2432.4324% of the people in Willington on census day were called LARKINS.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called LARKINS 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 LARKINS 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 LARKINS 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 LARKINS here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.25 in Willington means that you are 0.25 times as likely to find someone with the surname of LARKINS in Willington than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Willington in 1881

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

AGUTTER (1)  BAKER (1)  BALLS (5)  BARCOCK (8)  BARTRAM (3)  BATTISON (1)  BROWN (7)  BURR (11)  CHILDS (3)  CHURCH (9)  DAWSON (4)  DAY (8)  ELLIOTT (1)  FARR (2)  FRANCIS (1)  GOLDSMITH (1)  HART (16)  HOUGHTON (1)  JOHNSON (1)  KENDALL (2)  KING (1)  KIRBY (1)  LARKINS (18)  MARTIN (15)  MEATHERS (7)  MEDLOCK (3)  MIRLEY (1)  NORMAN (2)  NOTTINGHAM (2)  OLIVER (2)  ORLEBAR (4)  PAGLY (1)  PALMER (3)  PECK (1)  PELL (1)  PENWRIGHT (1)  PRATT (4)  PURSER (18)  RATCLIFFE (2)  SALE (7)  SHARMAN (19)  SMITH (1)  SPAVINS (17)  STOKES (13)  WALKER (2)  WEBB (14)  WILLIAMSON (2)