Top surnames from the 1881 census in Potsgrove, Bedfordshire

Potsgrove is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Bedfordshire

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
ROBINSON209.852230.90
CAPP136.40393,714.29
CLARKE104.926124.31
KENT104.9261116.96
COX94.433529.25
GREEN83.940914.00
FIELDS83.9409816.33
HOWE83.9409100.38
CHAPMAN73.448324.28
ROLLS73.4483777.78
CLARK73.448311.47
WARD73.448315.78
WESSON62.95571,132.08
STANIFORD62.95574,615.38
COLES62.955784.87
HOBBS52.463167.57
BUNYAN52.4631819.67
JOHNSON52.46317.33
HILL31.47785.80
SMITH20.98520.70
ROBERTS20.98522.62
ODELL20.9852135.14
PAXTON20.9852123.46
FOWLER20.985217.26
JANES20.9852153.85
WHETSTONE10.4926454.55
TOMPKINS10.492657.14
HURST10.492613.79
KNIGHT10.49264.00
BUTLER10.49265.05
HAMMOND10.49268.65
PAILTHORPE10.49261,428.57
FINCHER10.4926370.37
WHITING10.492625.58
JAMES10.49262.51

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
STANIFORD0.202034615.3846
CAPP0.202033714.2857
PAILTHORPE0.202031428.5714
WESSON0.202031132.0755
BUNYAN0.20203819.6721
FIELDS0.20203816.3265
ROLLS0.20203777.7778
WHETSTONE0.20203454.5455
FINCHER0.20203370.3704
JANES0.20203153.8462
ODELL0.20203135.1351
PAXTON0.20203123.4568
KENT0.20203116.9591
HOWE0.20203100.3764
COLES0.2020384.8656
HOBBS0.2020367.5676
TOMPKINS0.2020357.1429
ROBINSON0.2020330.8976
COX0.2020329.2493
WHITING0.2020325.5754
CLARKE0.2020324.3132
CHAPMAN0.2020324.2803
FOWLER0.2020317.2563
WARD0.2020315.7835
GREEN0.2020313.9958
HURST0.2020313.7931
CLARK0.2020311.4716
HAMMOND0.202038.6505
JOHNSON0.202037.3303
HILL0.202035.8027
BUTLER0.202035.0531
KNIGHT0.202033.9968
ROBERTS0.202032.6188
JAMES0.202032.5082
SMITH0.202030.6978

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 203 people called STANIFORD in Potsgrove 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 4615.3846 in Potsgrove means that 4615.3846% of the people in Potsgrove on census day were called STANIFORD.

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

All the surnames recorded in Potsgrove in 1881

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

BUNYAN (5)  BUTLER (1)  CAPP (13)  CHAPMAN (7)  CLARKE (10)  CLARK (7)  COLES (6)  COX (9)  DARKER (1)  FIELDS (8)  FINCHER (1)  FOWLER (2)  GILTION (2)  GREEN (8)  HAMMOND (1)  HANDSCOMB (12)  HILL (3)  HOBBS (5)  HOWE (8)  HURST (1)  JAMES (1)  JANES (2)  JOHNSON (5)  KENT (10)  KNIGHT (1)  LANSBURY (2)  ODELL (2)  PAILTHORPE (1)  PAXTON (2)  ROBERTS (2)  ROBINSON (20)  ROLLS (7)  SHOWLER (3)  SMITH (2)  STANIFORD (6)  TOMPKINS (1)  WARD (7)  WESSON (6)  WHETSTONE (1)  WHITING (1)  WINDMILL (11)