Top surnames from the 1881 census in Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire

Grafton Underwood is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Northamptonshire

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
PALMER4014.6520124.30
NICHOLS186.5934202.47
HART186.593477.29
PYWELL176.22715,000.00
HENSON176.2271531.25
BIRD155.494571.91
ROWLEY134.7619181.31
WORTHINGTON103.6630182.82
BAILEY62.197814.59
ROWLETT62.19781,500.00
AMEY51.8315657.89
BAGSHAW41.4652183.49
EADY41.4652645.16
RIPPIN41.4652975.61
MITCHELL41.46527.22
COOPER41.46526.02
NEAL31.098937.13
HAWKES20.732645.45
PEARSON20.73266.31
VERNON20.732644.54
VALENTINE20.732657.14
ABBOTT10.36638.31
GREEN10.36631.30
CURTIS10.36636.46
MANTON10.366385.47
COOCH10.36631,000.00
UNDERWOOD10.366313.57
JACKLIN10.3663136.99
CRADDOCK10.366343.48
MANSFIELD10.366319.53
SIMCO10.36631,428.57
HANGER10.3663357.14
DAVENPORT10.366319.34
JUDGE10.366333.90

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
PYWELL0.272735000.0000
ROWLETT0.272731500.0000
SIMCO0.272731428.5714
COOCH0.272731000.0000
RIPPIN0.27273975.6098
AMEY0.27273657.8947
EADY0.27273645.1613
HENSON0.27273531.2500
HANGER0.27273357.1429
NICHOLS0.27273202.4747
BAGSHAW0.27273183.4862
WORTHINGTON0.27273182.8154
ROWLEY0.27273181.3110
JACKLIN0.27273136.9863
PALMER0.27273124.3008
MANTON0.2727385.4701
HART0.2727377.2864
BIRD0.2727371.9080
VALENTINE0.2727357.1429
HAWKES0.2727345.4545
VERNON0.2727344.5434
CRADDOCK0.2727343.4783
NEAL0.2727337.1287
JUDGE0.2727333.8983
MANSFIELD0.2727319.5313
DAVENPORT0.2727319.3424
BAILEY0.2727314.5914
UNDERWOOD0.2727313.5685
ABBOTT0.272738.3056
MITCHELL0.272737.2228
CURTIS0.272736.4558
PEARSON0.272736.3072
COOPER0.272736.0232
GREEN0.272731.3007

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 273 people called PYWELL in Grafton Underwood 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 5000.0000 in Grafton Underwood means that 5000.0000% of the people in Grafton Underwood on census day were called PYWELL.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called PYWELL 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 PYWELL 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 PYWELL 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 PYWELL here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.27 in Grafton Underwood means that you are 0.27 times as likely to find someone with the surname of PYWELL in Grafton Underwood than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Grafton Underwood in 1881

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

ABBOTT (1)  BAGSHAW (4)  BAILEY (6)  BIRD (15)  BRAINS (23)  COOCH (1)  COOPER (4)  CRADDOCK (1)  CURTIS (1)  DAVENPORT (1)  EADY (4)  AMEY (5)  ENTWHISTLE (2)  FITSPATRIC (1)  GREEN (1)  HANGER (1)  HART (18)  HAWKES (2)  HENSON (17)  JACKLIN (1)  JUDGE (1)  LINNEL (5)  MANSFIELD (1)  MANTON (1)  MEASURES (7)  MITCHELL (4)  NEAL (3)  NICHOLS (18)  PALMER (40)  PEARSON (2)  PYWELL (17)  RIPPIN (4)  ROWLETT (6)  ROWLEY (13)  SAIL (1)  SIMCO (1)  TOSELAND (25)  UNDERWOOD (1)  VALENTINE (2)  VERNON (2)  WORTHINGTON (10)