1881 census place

Barrow In Furness surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Barrow In Furness, Lancashire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

2,186 surnames are listed for Barrow In Furness, Lancashire, covering 26,555 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Gaffney, with 27 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Barrow In Furness

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
201	Gaffney	27	0.060%	16.88x
202	Garnett	27	0.060%	4.61x
203	Hannah	27	0.060%	4.41x
204	Horner	27	0.060%	3.01x
205	Kellett	27	0.060%	6.58x
206	Priest	27	0.060%	4.37x
207	Redfern	27	0.060%	4.11x
208	Coward	26	0.060%	4.81x
209	Edgar	26	0.060%	3.58x
210	Furness	26	0.060%	6.90x
211	Gregson	26	0.060%	3.99x
212	Haney	26	0.060%	47.73x
213	Hankinson	26	0.060%	16.78x
214	Kirkham	26	0.060%	3.95x
215	Millard	26	0.060%	3.33x
216	Penney	26	0.060%	9.99x
217	Rawlinson	26	0.060%	4.62x
218	Roper	26	0.060%	2.65x
219	Sharples	26	0.060%	3.15x
220	Storey	26	0.060%	2.17x
221	Symons	26	0.060%	4.01x
222	Westwood	26	0.060%	3.29x
223	Whittle	26	0.060%	2.53x
224	Winter	26	0.060%	1.56x
225	Boyle	25	0.050%	2.04x
226	Carlisle	25	0.050%	10.07x
227	Christian	25	0.050%	5.35x
228	Cookson	25	0.050%	4.50x
229	Currie	25	0.050%	1.88x
230	Dickie	25	0.050%	6.76x
231	Gawne	25	0.050%	44.73x
232	Hale	25	0.050%	1.48x
233	Higgin	25	0.050%	22.12x
234	Johns	25	0.050%	2.05x
235	Kenyon	25	0.050%	2.54x
236	Rushton	25	0.050%	2.57x
237	Stables	25	0.050%	13.83x
238	Cairns	24	0.050%	2.35x
239	Clements	24	0.050%	1.53x
240	Downing	24	0.050%	2.93x
241	Grainger	24	0.050%	3.31x
242	Grimshaw	24	0.050%	3.05x
243	Haynes	24	0.050%	1.43x
244	Higginson	24	0.050%	5.09x
245	Humphries	24	0.050%	2.26x
246	Sharpe	24	0.050%	1.73x
247	Bainbridge	23	0.050%	3.47x
248	Bowes	23	0.050%	5.31x
249	Darby	23	0.050%	3.04x
250	Pedder	23	0.050%	13.89x
251	Plant	23	0.050%	2.21x
252	Round	23	0.050%	5.32x
253	Stockdale	23	0.050%	6.27x
254	Strickland	23	0.050%	6.12x
255	Swarbrick	23	0.050%	12.50x
256	Watters	23	0.050%	15.30x
257	Wren	23	0.050%	4.50x
258	Ashcroft	22	0.050%	3.49x
259	Baynes	22	0.050%	11.82x
260	Connell	22	0.050%	2.68x
261	Corkhill	22	0.050%	39.48x
262	Danson	22	0.050%	20.89x
263	Devlin	22	0.050%	5.70x
264	Eden	22	0.050%	4.59x
265	Ellison	22	0.050%	2.21x
266	Frankland	22	0.050%	6.30x
267	Goulding	22	0.050%	4.78x
268	Haddy	22	0.050%	83.68x
269	Irvine	22	0.050%	2.12x
270	Waddington	22	0.050%	2.87x
271	Beattie	21	0.040%	2.08x
272	Caldwell	21	0.040%	2.85x
273	Dent	21	0.040%	2.34x
274	Dick	21	0.040%	2.00x
275	Donnelly	21	0.040%	3.54x
276	Fitzpatrick	21	0.040%	3.04x
277	Flynn	21	0.040%	2.33x
278	Halsall	21	0.040%	8.45x
279	Lancaster	21	0.040%	1.79x
280	Mallett	21	0.040%	5.00x
281	Martindale	21	0.040%	7.76x
282	Milligan	21	0.040%	3.78x
283	Moody	21	0.040%	1.71x
284	Rogerson	21	0.040%	3.62x
285	Salisbury	21	0.040%	4.48x
286	Speight	21	0.040%	5.48x
287	Swindlehurst	21	0.040%	22.05x
288	Timms	21	0.040%	4.41x
289	Woodall	21	0.040%	5.54x
290	Agnew	20	0.040%	7.54x
291	Armer	20	0.040%	34.24x
292	Bagnall	20	0.040%	4.94x
293	Bateson	20	0.040%	6.78x
294	Beggs	20	0.040%	31.68x
295	Corless	20	0.040%	15.07x
296	Crewdson	20	0.040%	38.50x
297	Crosby	20	0.040%	3.58x
298	Dewhurst	20	0.040%	3.57x
299	Franks	20	0.040%	3.40x
300	Higham	20	0.040%	4.16x