Top surnames from the 1881 census in Stanley Pontlarge, Gloucestershire

Stanley Pontlarge 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
LAURENCE1319.40301,368.42
JAMES68.955245.59
WALKER57.462722.29
FREEMAN57.4627116.82
PARKER45.970131.40
FOWLER11.492526.11
JACKSON11.49255.34
SHOTTON11.4925434.78

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LAURENCE0.07671368.4211
SHOTTON0.0767434.7826
FREEMAN0.0767116.8224
JAMES0.076745.5927
PARKER0.076731.3972
FOWLER0.076726.1097
WALKER0.076722.2916
JACKSON0.07675.3419

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 67 people called LAURENCE in Stanley Pontlarge 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 1368.4211 in Stanley Pontlarge means that 1368.4211% of the people in Stanley Pontlarge on census day were called LAURENCE.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called LAURENCE 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 LAURENCE 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 LAURENCE 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 LAURENCE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.07 in Stanley Pontlarge means that you are 0.07 times as likely to find someone with the surname of LAURENCE in Stanley Pontlarge than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Stanley Pontlarge in 1881

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

BARTLEK (1)  DANA OR DANCE (18)  FOWLER (1)  FREEMAN (5)  JACKSON (1)  JAMES (6)  LAURENCE (13)  MANDAR (5)  PARKER (4)  SHOTTON (1)  TILLING (6)  WALKER (5)  WASLEY (1)