Top surnames from the 1881 census in Holystone, Northumberland

Holystone is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Northumberland

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
DAVIDSON2016.3934194.93
YOUNG129.836145.78
ROGERSON119.0164733.33
RUTHERFORD108.1967335.57
OLIVER75.737780.46
NEWTON75.737774.87
DOUGLASS75.7377897.44
MOFFAT64.9180271.49
SCOTT64.918019.44
MILBURN54.0984458.72
WILSON43.27877.14
GRAY43.278722.96
ELLIOT32.459096.46
TAIT32.459083.57
CROZIER21.6393350.88
NICHOL21.6393152.67
BLACKLOCK10.8197192.31
MACKNIGHT10.81973,333.33
WILKINSON10.81975.37
NICHOLSON10.819711.53
GREENWELL10.8197250.00
CARR10.819711.36

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
MACKNIGHT0.121223333.3333
DOUGLASS0.12122897.4359
ROGERSON0.12122733.3333
MILBURN0.12122458.7156
CROZIER0.12122350.8772
RUTHERFORD0.12122335.5705
MOFFAT0.12122271.4932
GREENWELL0.12122250.0000
DAVIDSON0.12122194.9318
BLACKLOCK0.12122192.3077
NICHOL0.12122152.6718
ELLIOT0.1212296.4630
TAIT0.1212283.5655
OLIVER0.1212280.4598
NEWTON0.1212274.8663
YOUNG0.1212245.7841
GRAY0.1212222.9621
SCOTT0.1212219.4363
NICHOLSON0.1212211.5340
CARR0.1212211.3636
WILSON0.121227.1390
WILKINSON0.121225.3706

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 122 people called MACKNIGHT in Holystone 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 3333.3333 in Holystone means that 3333.3333% of the people in Holystone on census day were called MACKNIGHT.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called MACKNIGHT 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 MACKNIGHT 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 MACKNIGHT 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 MACKNIGHT here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.12 in Holystone means that you are 0.12 times as likely to find someone with the surname of MACKNIGHT in Holystone than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Holystone in 1881

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

BLACKLOCK (1)  CARR (1)  CROZIER (2)  DAVIDSON (20)  DOUGLASS (7)  ELLIOT (3)  GRAY (4)  GREENWELL (1)  MACKNIGHT (1)  MILBURN (5)  MOFFAT (6)  NEWTON (7)  NICHOL (2)  NICHOLSON (1)  OLIVER (7)  ROGERSON (11)  RUTHERFORD (10)  SCOTT (6)  SNAITH (7)  TAIT (3)  WILKINSON (1)  WILSON (4)  YOUNG (12)