1881 census occupation

Cotton Operative surnames in the 1881 census

This page lists surnames most often recorded with the occupation Cotton Operative in 1881. Occupational titles are shown as recorded and transcribed, so similar jobs, variant spellings and mistakes can appear separately.

Occupation summary

1,481 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 11,692 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 333 people recorded as Cotton Operative.

Surnames most linked with Cotton Operative

These figures count people whose occupation was recorded under this exact title. A related job may appear under a separate spelling, so this is best read as a census snapshot rather than a cleaned modern job category.

#	Surname	People	1881 total
1	Taylor	333	191,142
2	Butterworth	198	10,743
3	Wood	142	95,380
4	Schofield	135	16,242
5	Wild	127	12,250
6	Ashworth	122	11,942
7	Mills	120	38,788
8	Jackson	119	83,594
9	Kershaw	116	9,666
10	Stott	116	9,356
11	Chadwick	113	13,091
12	Buckley	104	16,269
13	Turner	98	83,267
14	Booth	95	29,559
15	Kelly	88	30,644
16	Brierley	87	5,333
17	Clegg	87	10,197
18	Shaw	83	55,020
19	Walsh	82	15,864
20	Whitehead	73	20,246
21	Greenhalgh	70	6,131
22	Greenwood	70	23,239
23	Riley	67	23,673
24	Ogden	65	8,483
25	Fletcher	64	34,136
26	Partington	61	4,237
27	Dawson	57	32,910
28	Barlow	54	16,181
29	Crabtree	52	6,037
30	Hardman	52	6,003
31	Whitworth	51	5,013
32	Wilkinson	50	45,653
33	Fitton	49	3,373
34	Newton	49	22,922
35	Berry	48	23,740
36	Murphy	48	23,790
37	Sutcliffe	48	11,839
38	Ingham	46	7,443
39	Simpson	46	52,391
40	Yates	46	20,593
41	Slater	45	18,151
42	Bradley	44	24,034
43	Burke	44	8,736
44	Kay	43	12,865
45	Broadbent	42	6,399
46	Clayton	42	16,272
47	Crowther	41	8,948
48	Ashton	38	14,675
49	Nuttall	38	7,536
50	Burns	37	20,128
51	Duffy	37	6,593
52	Fielding	37	6,661
53	Shepherd	37	21,923
54	Clough	36	6,676
55	Needham	36	6,368
56	Williamson	36	26,852
57	Crossley	35	8,227
58	Mellor	35	10,568
59	Whittaker	35	14,193
60	Kenyon	34	6,248
61	Halliwell	33	3,322
62	Winterbottom	32	2,769
63	Dean	31	20,763
64	Duckworth	31	5,788
65	Hargreaves	31	12,498
66	Nield	30	2,052
67	Stansfield	30	4,622
68	Travis	30	3,520
69	Wolfenden	30	1,402
70	Bottomley	29	4,974
71	Royle	29	3,945
72	Walton	29	21,088
73	Connor	28	8,809
74	Gallagher	28	4,530
75	Hadfield	28	4,177
76	Moran	28	5,480
77	Ratcliffe	28	8,266
78	Rothwell	28	5,489
79	Bradbury	27	8,665
80	Bridge	27	6,077
81	Hamer	27	5,605
82	Parkinson	27	14,360
83	Pickering	27	10,811
84	Whittle	27	6,516
85	Wilcock	27	4,272
86	Bowden	26	8,607
87	Connolly	26	3,447
88	Pilling	26	3,614
89	Bates	25	19,015
90	Cheetham	25	4,637
91	Ramsbottom	25	2,034
92	Dearden	24	2,934
93	Fenton	24	5,969
94	Knowles	24	15,989
95	Pilkington	24	5,370
96	Rhodes	24	13,915
97	Scholes	24	3,470
98	Wrigley	24	3,789
99	Bentley	23	12,662
100	Beswick	23	2,922