1881 census occupation

Cotton Piecer surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

954 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 6,043 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 207 people recorded as Cotton Piecer.

Surnames most linked with Cotton Piecer

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	207	191,142
2	Shaw	111	55,020
3	Wood	111	95,380
4	Buckley	97	16,269
5	Whiteley	88	5,390
6	Schofield	84	16,242
7	Sykes	69	14,399
8	Booth	64	29,559
9	Ashton	51	14,675
10	Broadbent	51	6,399
11	Stott	50	9,356
12	Sutcliffe	50	11,839
13	Greenwood	48	23,239
14	Greenhalgh	47	6,131
15	Kershaw	47	9,666
16	Brierley	44	5,333
17	Mellor	44	10,568
18	Whitehead	43	20,246
19	Riley	38	23,673
20	Whittaker	38	14,193
21	Wild	38	12,250
22	Ashworth	37	11,942
23	Dyson	37	9,699
24	Walsh	36	15,864
25	Bottomley	34	4,974
26	Eastwood	33	7,069
27	Chadwick	32	13,091
28	Knowles	32	15,989
29	Bradley	31	24,034
30	Butterworth	31	10,743
31	Platt	31	7,918
32	Crossley	30	8,227
33	Entwistle	30	5,210
34	Kay	30	12,865
35	Ogden	30	8,483
36	Barlow	29	16,181
37	Newton	29	22,922
38	Beaumont	27	8,876
39	Crompton	27	5,035
40	Winterbottom	27	2,769
41	Yates	27	20,593
42	Fielding	26	6,661
43	Clegg	25	10,197
44	Fitton	25	3,373
45	Garside	25	4,328
46	Halliwell	25	3,322
47	Whittle	25	6,516
48	Blackburn	23	11,287
49	Hague	23	4,719
50	Wrigley	23	3,789
51	Bardsley	22	2,268
52	Nuttall	22	7,536
53	Slater	22	18,151
54	Wadsworth	22	4,167
55	Boardman	21	4,810
56	Bradbury	21	8,665
57	Gledhill	21	4,452
58	Greaves	21	8,773
59	Hadfield	21	4,177
60	Parkinson	21	14,360
61	Rhodes	21	13,915
62	Clayton	20	16,272
63	Kenyon	20	6,248
64	Stansfield	20	4,622
65	Andrew	19	9,483
66	Bowden	19	8,607
67	Cheetham	19	4,637
68	Crowther	19	8,948
69	Partington	19	4,237
70	Priestley	19	5,074
71	Wilde	19	4,372
72	Hanson	18	9,652
73	Mather	18	7,433
74	Radcliffe	18	3,033
75	Rigby	18	8,697
76	Wilcock	18	4,272
77	Oldham	17	5,288
78	Ratcliffe	17	8,266
79	Wolfenden	17	1,402
80	Worthington	17	5,992
81	Bentley	16	12,662
82	Collier	16	10,022
83	Crook	16	8,607
84	Cunliffe	16	3,724
85	Guest	16	6,380
86	Hardman	16	6,003
87	Isherwood	16	3,447
88	Nield	16	2,052
89	Travis	16	3,520
90	Warburton	16	7,375
91	Armitage	15	7,647
92	Bradshaw	15	12,284
93	Firth	15	9,950
94	France	15	4,551
95	Grime	15	1,575
96	Hamer	15	5,605
97	Hargreaves	15	12,498
98	Rothwell	15	5,489
99	Bowers	14	5,454
100	Gartside	14	1,246