Top surnames from the 1881 census in Elwick Hall, County Durham

Elwick Hall is an 1881 census registration district in the county of County Durham

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
BELL169.638651.30
DARLING159.0361943.40
SMITH148.43375.97
SANDERSON116.6265160.35
ELDERS106.02417,692.31
WALTON84.819368.49
CROSBY74.2169357.14
JACKSON74.216915.09
SIMPSON63.614520.67
ADAMS53.012020.44
BACON53.0120119.90
PREST53.0120980.39
WOOD42.40967.56
BURRELL42.4096185.19
PICKERING31.807250.08
WRIGHT31.80725.63
JOBSON21.2048204.08
BROWN21.20481.83
BODDY21.2048217.39
DALE21.204828.53
BATTLE10.6024196.08
ROBINSON10.60241.89
DICKINSON10.602414.10
WILLS10.602420.16
STOCKS10.602455.25
HARRISON10.60242.71
SHEARER10.602446.95
REED10.60248.25
PEACOCK10.602416.89
BUSBY10.602457.14
WELSH10.602415.22
BRITTEN10.6024151.52
FERGUSON10.60248.50
DUCKWORTH10.602431.15
ARMSTRONG10.60247.88
MARSHALL10.60243.59
HUTCHINSON10.602410.60
BONE10.602432.47
FARROW10.602432.05

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
ELDERS0.171667692.3077
PREST0.17166980.3922
DARLING0.17166943.3962
CROSBY0.17166357.1429
BODDY0.17166217.3913
JOBSON0.17166204.0816
BATTLE0.17166196.0784
BURRELL0.17166185.1852
SANDERSON0.17166160.3499
BRITTEN0.17166151.5152
BACON0.17166119.9041
WALTON0.1716668.4932
BUSBY0.1716657.1429
STOCKS0.1716655.2486
BELL0.1716651.2985
PICKERING0.1716650.0835
SHEARER0.1716646.9484
BONE0.1716632.4675
FARROW0.1716632.0513
DUCKWORTH0.1716631.1526
DALE0.1716628.5307
SIMPSON0.1716620.6683
ADAMS0.1716620.4415
WILLS0.1716620.1613
PEACOCK0.1716616.8919
WELSH0.1716615.2207
JACKSON0.1716615.0895
DICKINSON0.1716614.1044
HUTCHINSON0.1716610.6045
FERGUSON0.171668.4962
REED0.171668.2508
ARMSTRONG0.171667.8802
WOOD0.171667.5629
SMITH0.171665.9732
WRIGHT0.171665.6338
MARSHALL0.171663.5920
HARRISON0.171662.7137
ROBINSON0.171661.8893
BROWN0.171661.8277

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 166 people called ELDERS in Elwick Hall 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 7692.3077 in Elwick Hall means that 7692.3077% of the people in Elwick Hall on census day were called ELDERS.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ELDERS 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 ELDERS 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 ELDERS 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 ELDERS here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.17 in Elwick Hall means that you are 0.17 times as likely to find someone with the surname of ELDERS in Elwick Hall than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Elwick Hall in 1881

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

ADAMS (5)  ARMSTRONG (1)  BACON (5)  BALLENSBY (1)  BARRICE (1)  BELL (16)  BATTLE (1)  BODDY (2)  BONE (1)  BRITTEN (1)  BROWN (2)  BURRELL (4)  BURTEN (1)  BUSBY (1)  COLTSMAN (1)  CROSBY (7)  DALE (2)  DARLING (15)  DICKINSON (1)  DUCKWORTH (1)  EGDELL (4)  ELDERS (10)  FARROW (1)  FERGUSON (1)  FISBURN (1)  HARBRON (1)  HARRISON (1)  HUTCHINSON (1)  JACKSON (7)  JOBSON (2)  MARSHALL (1)  MELLANBY (1)  PEACOCK (1)  PICKERING (3)  PREST (5)  REED (1)  RICHINSON (1)  ROBINSON (1)  SANDERSON (11)  SHEARER (1)  SIMPSON (6)  SMITH (14)  STOCKS (1)  THUBRON (4)  WALTON (8)  WELSH (1)  WILLS (1)  WOOD (4)  WRIGHT (3)