Top surnames from the 1881 census in Great Musgrave, Westmorland

Great Musgrave is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Westmorland

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
SAVAGE94.9451128.76
TAYLOR94.94517.73
WALKER94.945114.77
PARK84.3956141.84
RUDD84.3956278.75
FOTHERGILL84.3956769.23
ROBINSON73.846212.06
COLLINSON73.8462327.10
SOWERBY63.2967612.24
ALLAN63.296752.49
FRANKLAND63.2967444.44
LISHMAN63.29671,621.62
CANNON52.7473151.52
ALDERSON52.7473197.63
COCKBURN52.7473215.52
RICHARDSON42.197812.91
HENDERSON42.197820.22
ION31.64843,333.33
AUSTIN31.648433.71
STEEL31.648440.43
DOBSON21.098924.91
LANCASTER21.098944.25
CALVERT21.098953.91
WILSON21.09892.39
RAINE21.0989131.58
ATKINSON10.54955.64
SEWELL10.549525.97
HALL10.54951.87
ADDISON10.549539.68
WHARTON10.549539.22
THWAITES10.549591.74
BOWMAN10.549521.05
WARWICK10.549539.68
JACKSON10.54951.97
SMEDLEY10.549567.11
LANGHORN10.5495434.78
BROWN10.54950.83
IRVING10.549524.69

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
ION3,333.3331.6484
LISHMAN1,621.6263.2967
FOTHERGILL769.2384.3956
SOWERBY612.2463.2967
FRANKLAND444.4463.2967
LANGHORN434.7810.5495
COLLINSON327.1073.8462
RUDD278.7584.3956
COCKBURN215.5252.7473
ALDERSON197.6352.7473
CANNON151.5252.7473
PARK141.8484.3956
RAINE131.5821.0989
SAVAGE128.7694.9451
THWAITES91.7410.5495
SMEDLEY67.1110.5495
CALVERT53.9121.0989
ALLAN52.4963.2967
LANCASTER44.2521.0989
STEEL40.4331.6484
ADDISON39.6810.5495
WARWICK39.6810.5495
WHARTON39.2210.5495
AUSTIN33.7131.6484
SEWELL25.9710.5495
DOBSON24.9121.0989
IRVING24.6910.5495
BOWMAN21.0510.5495
HENDERSON20.2242.1978
WALKER14.7794.9451
RICHARDSON12.9142.1978
ROBINSON12.0673.8462
TAYLOR7.7394.9451
ATKINSON5.6410.5495
WILSON2.3921.0989
JACKSON1.9710.5495
HALL1.8710.5495
BROWN0.8310.5495

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 3 people called ION in Great Musgrave 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 1.6484 in Great Musgrave means that 1.6484% of the people in Great Musgrave on census day were called ION.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ION 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 ION 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 ION 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 ION here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 3,333.33 in Great Musgrave means that you are 3,333.33 times as likely to find someone with the surname of ION in Great Musgrave than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Great Musgrave in 1881

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

ADAMTHWAITE (4)  ADDISON (1)  ALDERSON (5)  ALLAN (6)  ATKINSON (1)  AUSTIN (3)  BOUSFIELD (9)  BOWMAN (1)  BROWN (1)  CALVERT (2)  CANNON (5)  CAPSTICK (10)  CHAPLOW (7)  CHAPELHOW (1)  COCKBURN (5)  COLLINSON (7)  DOBSON (2)  FOTHERGILL (8)  FRANKLAND (6)  GOWLING (1)  HALL (1)  HENDERSON (4)  HINDMORE (4)  ION (3)  IRVING (1)  JACKSON (1)  LANCASTER (2)  LANGHORN (1)  LISHMAN (6)  MAUGHAM (1)  MC CULLOCK (1)  PARK (8)  RAINE (2)  RICHARDSON (4)  ROBINSON (7)  RUDD (8)  SAVAGE (9)  SEWELL (1)  SMEDLEY (1)  SOWERBY (6)  STEEL (3)  TAYLOR (9)  THWAITES (1)  WALKER (9)  WARWICK (1)  WHARTON (1)  WILSON (2)