1881 census occupation

Cotton Spinner surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

1,916 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 12,538 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 249 people recorded as Cotton Spinner.

Surnames most linked with Cotton Spinner

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	249	191,142
2	Jackson	155	83,594
3	Greenwood	130	23,239
4	Wood	113	95,380
5	Riley	105	23,673
6	Hall	104	88,053
7	Shaw	104	55,020
8	Booth	92	29,559
9	Parkinson	92	14,360
10	Wilkinson	92	45,653
11	Green	89	84,164
12	Sutcliffe	80	11,839
13	Ashworth	78	11,942
14	Hargreaves	77	12,498
15	Walsh	73	15,864
16	Butterworth	72	10,743
17	Stott	71	9,356
18	Schofield	68	16,242
19	Slater	67	18,151
20	Ashton	64	14,675
21	Barnes	64	36,002
22	Kelly	61	30,644
23	Knowles	60	15,989
24	Berry	55	23,740
25	Bolton	55	12,910
26	Buckley	54	16,269
27	Clegg	54	10,197
28	Dawson	53	32,910
29	Kay	53	12,865
30	Spencer	51	27,278
31	Ainsworth	50	5,936
32	Chadwick	50	13,091
33	Nuttall	50	7,536
34	Whittle	50	6,516
35	Crossley	48	8,227
36	Whiteley	48	5,390
37	Wild	48	12,250
38	Whitehead	47	20,246
39	Atkinson	46	29,154
40	Crook	45	8,607
41	Greenhalgh	45	6,131
42	Whalley	45	4,728
43	Clayton	43	16,272
44	Yates	43	20,593
45	Entwistle	42	5,210
46	Dewhurst	41	3,553
47	Fletcher	41	34,136
48	Walton	41	21,088
49	Gregson	40	4,146
50	Moss	40	18,432
51	Sharples	40	5,244
52	Crowther	39	8,948
53	Whittaker	39	14,193
54	Woods	38	18,768
55	Barrett	37	20,042
56	Blackburn	37	11,287
57	Duckworth	37	5,788
58	Kershaw	37	9,666
59	Burns	36	20,128
60	Kenyon	36	6,248
61	Mather	36	7,433
62	Sykes	36	14,399
63	Wilcock	36	4,272
64	Atherton	35	5,404
65	Barlow	35	16,181
66	Hardman	35	6,003
67	Isherwood	35	3,447
68	Fielding	34	6,661
69	Rigby	34	8,697
70	Walmsley	34	6,180
71	Eastwood	33	7,069
72	Ogden	33	8,483
73	Bentley	32	12,662
74	Briggs	32	16,242
75	Crabtree	32	6,037
76	Mellor	32	10,568
77	Tattersall	32	4,165
78	Connor	31	8,809
79	Pilkington	31	5,370
80	Bradley	30	24,034
81	Cunliffe	30	3,724
82	Murphy	30	23,790
83	Bradshaw	29	12,284
84	Burke	29	8,736
85	Gill	29	20,931
86	Riding	29	2,019
87	Snape	29	2,758
88	Southworth	29	1,535
89	Moran	28	5,480
90	Hamer	27	5,605
91	Marsh	27	21,309
92	Warburton	26	7,375
93	Webster	26	26,040
94	Broadbent	25	6,399
95	Hampson	25	5,411
96	Nelson	25	14,407
97	Tomlinson	25	13,809
98	Brindle	24	2,155
99	Clough	24	6,676
100	Platt	24	7,918