Top surnames from the 1881 census in Barnsley, Gloucestershire

Barnsley 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
SMITH259.05806.42
PAGE176.159477.03
POOL124.3478375.00
KEEN124.3478217.00
LARNER113.98551,264.37
POOLE103.623275.19
NORRIS93.260975.95
ILES93.2609422.54
MORSE93.2609355.73
BARTLETT93.260974.44
TOWNSEND82.898668.26
HEAD82.8986119.05
NEWMAN82.898638.99
WEAVER72.536297.49
WAIN62.1739258.62
COOPER62.17398.94
MUSGRAVE62.1739359.28
MASON62.173916.17
TAYLOR51.81162.83
DAVIS51.81168.24
KIRBY51.811647.76
JAMES41.44937.38
THORNTON41.449328.82
TURK41.4493579.71
COMPTON41.4493150.38
CLEMENTS31.087032.75
WIDDOWSON31.0870204.08
BAYLIS20.724668.97
REEVES20.724617.70
HODGES20.724624.72
THOMAS20.72461.76
HARRIS20.72462.85
BOOKER10.362330.21
DAY10.36233.85
MOSS10.36235.88
ABELL10.3623117.65
COWLEY10.362319.69
MADGE10.3623114.94
GOUGH10.362312.36
RIVERS10.362358.48
GARDNER10.36235.34
BURROWS10.36238.28
FAULKNER10.362313.37
HARVEY10.36233.39
LUFFMAN10.3623322.58
GOODENOUGH10.3623126.58
CASWELL10.362374.63
LARGE10.362335.21
WEAVING10.3623303.03
FRANKLIN10.362310.91

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LARNER0.282761264.3678
TURK0.28276579.7101
ILES0.28276422.5352
POOL0.28276375.0000
MUSGRAVE0.28276359.2814
MORSE0.28276355.7312
LUFFMAN0.28276322.5806
WEAVING0.28276303.0303
WAIN0.28276258.6207
KEEN0.28276216.9982
WIDDOWSON0.28276204.0816
LOWER0.28276192.3077
COMPTON0.28276150.3759
GOODENOUGH0.28276126.5823
HEAD0.28276119.0476
ABELL0.28276117.6471
MADGE0.28276114.9425
WEAVER0.2827697.4930
PAGE0.2827677.0276
NORRIS0.2827675.9494
POOLE0.2827675.1880
CASWELL0.2827674.6269
BARTLETT0.2827674.4417
BAYLIS0.2827668.9655
TOWNSEND0.2827668.2594
RIVERS0.2827658.4795
KIRBY0.2827647.7555
DURHAM0.2827642.0168
NEWMAN0.2827638.9864
LARGE0.2827635.2113
CLEMENTS0.2827632.7511
BOOKER0.2827630.2115
THORNTON0.2827628.8184
BROAD0.2827628.4900
HODGES0.2827624.7219
COWLEY0.2827619.6850
REEVES0.2827617.6991
MASON0.2827616.1681
FAULKNER0.2827613.3690
GOUGH0.2827612.3609
FRANKLIN0.2827610.9051
CARPENTER0.2827610.5597
GODDARD0.282769.0090
COOPER0.282768.9366
BURROWS0.282768.2781
DAVIS0.282768.2440
JAMES0.282767.3787
SMITH0.282766.4152
CURTIS0.282766.3857
MOSS0.282765.8789

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 276 people called LARNER in Barnsley 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 1264.3678 in Barnsley means that 1264.3678% of the people in Barnsley on census day were called LARNER.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called LARNER 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 LARNER 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 LARNER 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 LARNER here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.28 in Barnsley means that you are 0.28 times as likely to find someone with the surname of LARNER in Barnsley than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Barnsley in 1881

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

ABELL (1)  BARTLETT (9)  BAYLIS (2)  BISLEY (3)  BOOKER (1)  BROAD (1)  BURROWS (1)  CARPENTER (1)  CASWELL (1)  CLEMENTS (3)  COMPTON (4)  O'CONNELL (1)  COOPER (6)  COWLEY (1)  CURTIS (1)  DAVIS (5)  DAY (1)  DURHAM (1)  ETTMALLER (1)  FAULKNER (1)  FORD (1)  FRANKLIN (1)  GARDNER (1)  GODDARD (1)  GOODENOUGH (1)  GOUGH (1)  HARRIS (2)  HARVEY (1)  HEAD (8)  HENDING (4)  HODGES (2)  ILES (9)  JAMES (4)  JOHNSON (1)  KEEN (12)  KIRBY (5)  LARGE (1)  LARNER (11)  LOWER (1)  LUFFMAN (1)  MADGE (1)  MARGRETTS (3)  MASON (6)  MORSE (9)  MOSS (1)  MUSGRAVE (6)  NEWMAN (8)  NORRIS (9)  PAGE (17)  POOL (12)  POOLE (10)  REEVES (2)  RESSFELL (1)  RIVERS (1)  ROSS (1)  SMITH (25)  TAYLOR (5)  THOMAS (2)  THORNTON (4)  TOWNSEND (8)  TUCKWELL (9)  TURK (4)  VASH (1)  WAIN (6)  WAKELIN (1)  WEAVING (1)  WEAVER (7)  WIDDOWSON (3)