Top surnames from the 1881 census in Cherington, Gloucestershire

Cherington is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Gloucestershire

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
NEWMAN136.220183.66
MASTERS94.3062232.56
SPARROW94.3062339.62
ROBERTS94.306211.45
LUCAS73.349372.46
ROBINS73.3493158.01
WHITE73.349310.42
PRESTON73.349367.05
HOWARD73.349334.13
HITCHENS73.34931,372.55
BLACKWELL73.3493183.73
NELSON62.870859.29
FOWLER62.870850.25
WAKEFIELD52.3923133.69
TANNER52.3923106.61
FOWLES52.3923485.44
WALKER41.91395.72
BARRETT41.913928.49
SQUIRES41.9139135.14
GODDARD41.913947.62
MANN41.913936.33
TURNER41.91396.88
HALL41.91396.51
GREEN41.91396.80
JAMES41.91399.74
WOOD31.43544.51
LANE31.435420.83
KING31.43546.59
HADLAND20.9569588.24
KILMISTER20.95692,000.00
BOWLEY20.9569173.91
JERVIS20.9569124.22
COLEMAN20.956919.19
MACPHERSON20.9569148.15
WHITEHEAD20.956914.15
RIGSBY20.95692,857.14
CLEMENTS10.478514.43
HILL10.47851.88
TARLING10.4785238.10
DAVIS10.47852.18
MORSE10.478552.08
HARNER10.47851,666.67
GRIFFIN10.478510.17
WHITTING10.4785357.14
WALTON10.47856.80
MILSON10.4785222.22
STRANGE10.478544.64
SAVAGE10.478512.45

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
RIGSBY0.212092857.1429
KILMISTER0.212092000.0000
HARNER0.212091666.6667
HITCHENS0.212091372.5490
HADLAND0.21209588.2353
FOWLES0.21209485.4369
WHITTING0.21209357.1429
SPARROW0.21209339.6226
TARLING0.21209238.0952
MASTERS0.21209232.5581
MILSON0.21209222.2222
BLACKWELL0.21209183.7270
BOWLEY0.21209173.9130
ROBINS0.21209158.0135
MACPHERSON0.21209148.1481
SQUIRES0.21209135.1351
WAKEFIELD0.21209133.6898
JERVIS0.21209124.2236
TANNER0.21209106.6098
NEWMAN0.2120983.6551
LUCAS0.2120972.4638
PRESTON0.2120967.0498
NELSON0.2120959.2885
MORSE0.2120952.0833
FOWLER0.2120950.2513
GODDARD0.2120947.6190
STRANGE0.2120944.6429
MANN0.2120936.3306
HOWARD0.2120934.1297
BARRETT0.2120928.4900
LANE0.2120920.8333
COLEMAN0.2120919.1939
CLEMENTS0.2120914.4300
WHITEHEAD0.2120914.1543
SAVAGE0.2120912.4533
ROBERTS0.2120911.4460
WHITE0.2120910.4198
GRIFFIN0.2120910.1729
JAMES0.212099.7442
TURNER0.212096.8752
WALTON0.212096.7981
GREEN0.212096.7969
KING0.212096.5862
HALL0.212096.5051
WALKER0.212095.7167
WOOD0.212094.5052
DAVIS0.212092.1772
HILL0.212091.8786

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 209 people called RIGSBY in Cherington 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 2857.1429 in Cherington means that 2857.1429% of the people in Cherington on census day were called RIGSBY.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called RIGSBY 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 RIGSBY 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 RIGSBY 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 RIGSBY here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.21 in Cherington means that you are 0.21 times as likely to find someone with the surname of RIGSBY in Cherington than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Cherington in 1881

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

BARRETT (4)  BIGNILE (1)  BLACKWELL (7)  BOWLEY (2)  CLEMENTS (1)  COLEMAN (2)  DAVIS (1)  FOWLER (6)  FOWLES (5)  FURWILL (?) (1)  GELDING (1)  GODDARD (4)  GREECE (2)  GREEN (4)  GRIFFIN (1)  HADLAND (2)  HALL (4)  HARNER (1)  HENDING (1)  HILL (1)  HITCHENS (7)  HOWARD (7)  JAMES (4)  JERVIS (2)  KILMISTER (2)  KING (3)  LANE (3)  LUCAS (7)  MANN (4)  MASTERS (9)  MACPHERSON (2)  MELSOME (2)  MILSON (1)  MORSE (1)  NELSON (6)  NEWMAN (13)  OCKWELL (8)  PRESTON (7)  RIGSBY (2)  ROBERTS (9)  ROBINS (7)  SAVAGE (1)  SHILLHAM (3)  SPARROW (9)  SQUIRES (4)  STRIPR (1)  STRANGE (1)  TANNER (5)  TARLING (1)  TURNER (4)  WAKEFIELD (5)  WALKER (4)  WALTON (1)  WHITE (7)  WHITEHEAD (2)  WHITTING (1)  WOOD (3)