Top surnames from the 1881 census in Worthington, Lancashire

Worthington is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Lancashire

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
MORT124.7059975.61
TAYLOR114.31376.75
ATHERTON103.9216218.34
RIGBY103.9216135.14
BULLEN93.5294333.33
MORRIS72.745112.33
HALSALL72.7451522.39
TURNER72.74519.86
HUGHES62.35298.40
HALE62.352965.57
BOOTH62.352923.86
HALTON51.9608515.46
FOWLER51.960834.34
JEPSON51.9608200.80
HOLLINGS51.9608520.83
WOODCOCK51.960868.68
HAMPSON51.9608108.70
COOPER41.56866.45
ACKERLEY41.56861,081.08
SMITH41.56861.11
CLAYTON41.568628.86
MARSH41.568621.99
CROOK41.568654.64
JOHNSTON41.568619.44
BENTHAM41.5686341.88
FINNEY31.1765135.75
ROBERTS31.17653.13
WARD31.17655.39
FAIRHURST31.1765143.54
HILL31.17654.62
HAYES20.784312.61
FOSTER20.78435.87
NORRIS20.784318.26
AINSWORTH20.784339.60
FLETCHER20.78436.87
PENNINGTON20.784352.91
HOWARTH20.784316.33
EVANS20.78431.79
MYERSCOUGH10.3922263.16
SUTTON10.39226.16
SILVESTER10.392250.76
BROOKES10.392216.69
LITCHFIELD10.392295.24
PILLING10.392232.47
BOARDMAN10.392224.45
WILLIAMS10.39220.55
PEACOCK10.392211.00
BANNISTER10.392222.73
TULLEY10.3922188.68
DICKINSON10.39229.18

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
ACKERLEY0.262551081.0811
MORT0.26255975.6098
HALSALL0.26255522.3881
HOLLINGS0.26255520.8333
HALTON0.26255515.4639
BENTHAM0.26255341.8803
BULLEN0.26255333.3333
WINROW0.26255294.1176
MYERSCOUGH0.26255263.1579
ATHERTON0.26255218.3406
JEPSON0.26255200.8032
TULLEY0.26255188.6792
FAIRHURST0.26255143.5407
MAKINSON0.26255136.9863
FINNEY0.26255135.7466
RIGBY0.26255135.1351
HAMPSON0.26255108.6957
LITCHFIELD0.2625595.2381
WOODCOCK0.2625568.6813
HALE0.2625565.5738
CROOK0.2625554.6448
BERESFORD0.2625553.1915
PENNINGTON0.2625552.9101
SILVESTER0.2625550.7614
AINSWORTH0.2625539.6040
PERKS0.2625537.7358
FOWLER0.2625534.3407
PILLING0.2625532.4675
CLAYTON0.2625528.8600
BOARDMAN0.2625524.4499
BOOTH0.2625523.8569
MURDOCH0.2625523.0947
BANNISTER0.2625522.7273
MARSH0.2625521.9901
JOHNSTON0.2625519.4363
NORRIS0.2625518.2648
BROOKES0.2625516.6945
HOWARTH0.2625516.3265
LANCASTER0.2625515.7729
SIMMONDS0.2625514.6843
HAYES0.2625512.6103
MORRIS0.2625512.3326
PEACOCK0.2625511.0011
TURNER0.262559.8619
BRADSHAW0.262559.5511
DICKINSON0.262559.1827
HUGHES0.262558.3975
FLETCHER0.262556.8705
TAYLOR0.262556.7456
COOPER0.262556.4485

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 255 people called ACKERLEY in Worthington 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 1081.0811 in Worthington means that 1081.0811% of the people in Worthington on census day were called ACKERLEY.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ACKERLEY 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 ACKERLEY 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 ACKERLEY 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 ACKERLEY here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.26 in Worthington means that you are 0.26 times as likely to find someone with the surname of ACKERLEY in Worthington than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Worthington in 1881

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

ACKERLEY (4)  AINSWORTH (2)  ALKER (8)  ANDREWS (1)  ARSTALL (2)  ATHERTON (10)  BAILEY (1)  BANNISTER (1)  BENTHAM (4)  BERESFORD (1)  BOARDMAN (1)  BOOTH (6)  BRADSHAW (1)  BROOKES (1)  BULLEN (9)  CAUNCE (3)  CHARDIN (1)  CLAYTON (4)  COOPER (4)  CROOK (4)  DICCONSON (6)  DICKINSON (1)  EVANS (2)  FAIRHURST (3)  FARRIMOND (1)  FINNEY (3)  FLETCHER (2)  FOSTER (2)  FOWLER (5)  JEPSON (5)  HALE (6)  HALSALL (7)  HALTON (5)  HAMPSON (5)  HART (1)  HAYES (2)  HILL (3)  HODCROFT (6)  HOLLINGS (5)  HOWARTH (2)  HUGHES (6)  JOHNSTON (4)  MC KAY (1)  LANCASTER (1)  LITCHFIELD (1)  MAKINSON (1)  MARSH (4)  MORRIS (7)  MORT (12)  MURDOCH (1)  MYERSCOUGH (1)  NORRIS (2)  OLLERTON (8)  PEACOCK (1)  PENNINGTON (2)  PERKS (1)  PILLING (1)  RIGBY (10)  ROBERTS (3)  ROSTRON (10)  SHARBURN (1)  SILVESTER (1)  SIMMONDS (1)  SMITH (4)  SUTTON (1)  TAYLOR (11)  TRELFALL (1)  TULLEY (1)  TURNER (7)  WARD (3)  WILLIAMS (1)  WINROW (1)  WOODCOCK (5)