Top surnames from the 1881 census in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire

Cholesbury is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Buckinghamshire

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
KEEN1313.1313656.57
DWIGHT1111.111112,222.22
BROWN1010.101015.32
HUMPHREY66.0606227.27
PALLETT44.04041,538.46
PARSLOW44.04041,904.76
BISHOP44.040457.80
HAUSE44.040420,000.00
THORN33.0303202.70
SAVILLE33.0303333.33
GOMM33.03031,153.85
NEWTON33.030339.53
BATCHELOR22.0202119.05
WRIGHT22.02026.30
CARTRIGHT11.01011,666.67
MORTON11.010118.90
HOAR11.0101243.90
GRIFFIN11.010121.46
CROOK11.010135.21
HAYNES11.010128.33
STREET11.010143.29
COX11.01016.67
SIMPSON11.01015.77
PARKINSON11.010121.05

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
HAUSE0.109920000.0000
DWIGHT0.109912222.2222
PARSLOW0.10991904.7619
CARTRIGHT0.10991666.6667
PALLETT0.10991538.4615
GOMM0.10991153.8462
KEEN0.1099656.5657
SAVILLE0.1099333.3333
HOAR0.1099243.9024
HUMPHREY0.1099227.2727
THORN0.1099202.7027
BATCHELOR0.1099119.0476
BISHOP0.109957.8035
STREET0.109943.2900
NEWTON0.109939.5257
CROOK0.109935.2113
HAYNES0.109928.3286
GRIFFIN0.109921.4592
PARKINSON0.109921.0526
MORTON0.109918.9036
BROWN0.109915.3233
COX0.10996.6667
WRIGHT0.10996.2972
SIMPSON0.10995.7737

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 99 people called HAUSE in Cholesbury 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 20000.0000 in Cholesbury means that 20000.0000% of the people in Cholesbury on census day were called HAUSE.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called HAUSE 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 HAUSE 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 HAUSE 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 HAUSE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.10 in Cholesbury means that you are 0.10 times as likely to find someone with the surname of HAUSE in Cholesbury than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Cholesbury in 1881

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

BATCHELOR (2)  BATCHELER (4)  BEASENT (1)  BISHOP (4)  BRACKLY (8)  BROWN (10)  CARTRIGHT (1)  COX (1)  CROOK (1)  DARVILL (2)  DWIGHT (11)  GOMM (3)  GRIFFIN (1)  HAUSE (4)  HAYNES (1)  HOAR (1)  HUMPHREY (6)  JESTON (2)  KEEN (13)  MORTON (1)  NEWTON (3)  PALLETT (4)  PARKINSON (1)  PARSLOW (4)  SAVILLE (3)  SIMPSON (1)  STREET (1)  THORN (3)  WRIGHT (2)