Top surnames from the 1881 census in Fradswell, Staffordshire

Fradswell is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Staffordshire

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
BAILEY147.035246.71
ALCOCK136.5327452.96
JOHNSON136.532719.44
KIRKHAM115.5276395.68
CHADWICK94.5226103.45
ELLSMORE84.02018,888.89
TURNER73.517612.64
ARNOLD63.015155.92
UPTON63.0151158.31
BATES52.512639.49
FAIRBANKS52.51262,000.00
MIDDLETON52.512647.85
BROMLEY52.5126163.40
MELBOURNE42.01011,000.00
STANLEY42.010152.29
FOSTER31.507511.27
KEW31.5075517.24
HULME31.507570.42
WORTHINGTON21.005050.13
HANT21.00502,500.00
BLURTON21.00501,333.33
BUCKLEY21.005018.47
COPE10.502522.22
JONES10.50250.44
CAULFIELD10.5025294.12
MILLINGTON10.502533.22
GILFORD10.5025714.29
MARSHALL10.50253.00
KEY10.502536.36
CHALLINOR10.5025142.86
WARD10.50252.30
THOMSON10.50253.76
HALL10.50251.71
BLISSETT10.5025344.83
KNIGHT10.50254.08
EDWARDS10.50251.80
GRIFFIN10.502510.68

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
ELLSMORE0.201998888.8889
HANT0.201992500.0000
FAIRBANKS0.201992000.0000
BLURTON0.201991333.3333
MELBOURNE0.201991000.0000
GILFORD0.20199714.2857
KEW0.20199517.2414
ALCOCK0.20199452.9617
KIRKHAM0.20199395.6835
BLISSETT0.20199344.8276
CAULFIELD0.20199294.1176
BROMLEY0.20199163.3987
UPTON0.20199158.3113
CHALLINOR0.20199142.8571
CHADWICK0.20199103.4483
HULME0.2019970.4225
ARNOLD0.2019955.9180
STANLEY0.2019952.2876
WORTHINGTON0.2019950.1253
MIDDLETON0.2019947.8469
BAILEY0.2019946.7134
BATES0.2019939.4945
KEY0.2019936.3636
MILLINGTON0.2019933.2226
COPE0.2019922.2222
JOHNSON0.2019919.4436
BUCKLEY0.2019918.4672
TURNER0.2019912.6377
FOSTER0.2019911.2740
GRIFFIN0.2019910.6838
KNIGHT0.201994.0766
THOMSON0.201993.7608
MARSHALL0.201992.9958
WARD0.201992.3004
EDWARDS0.201991.8031
HALL0.201991.7082
JONES0.201990.4437

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 199 people called ELLSMORE in Fradswell 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 8888.8889 in Fradswell means that 8888.8889% of the people in Fradswell on census day were called ELLSMORE.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ELLSMORE 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 ELLSMORE 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 ELLSMORE 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 ELLSMORE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.20 in Fradswell means that you are 0.20 times as likely to find someone with the surname of ELLSMORE in Fradswell than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Fradswell in 1881

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

ALCOCK (13)  ALLDRED (1)  ARNOLD (6)  BAILEY (14)  BATES (5)  BLISSETT (1)  BLURTON (2)  BROMLEY (5)  BUCKLEY (2)  BERNHAM (7)  CHALLINOR (1)  CAPEWELL (28)  CAULFIELD (1)  CHADWICK (9)  KEW (3)  COPE (1)  DIMMOCK (3)  EDWARDS (1)  ELLSMORE (8)  FAIRBANKS (5)  FOAM (1)  FOSTER (3)  GILFORD (1)  GRIFFIN (1)  HALL (1)  HOULDCROFT (4)  HULME (3)  HANT (2)  JOHNSON (13)  JONES (1)  KEY (1)  KIRKHAM (11)  KNIGHT (1)  MARSHALL (1)  MIDDLETON (5)  MELBOURNE (4)  MILLINGTON (1)  STANLEY (4)  SUTHANE (1)  THOMSON (1)  TUNICLIFF (7)  TURNER (7)  UPTON (6)  WARD (1)  WORTHINGTON (2)