1881 census occupation

Cotton Weaver surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

5,279 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 127,060 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 2,541 people recorded as Cotton Weaver.

Surnames most linked with Cotton Weaver

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	Smith	2,541	422,249
2	Taylor	2,267	191,142
3	Greenwood	1,291	23,239
4	Jackson	1,098	83,594
5	Ashworth	1,016	11,942
6	Hargreaves	1,015	12,498
7	Wilkinson	979	45,653
8	Robinson	898	95,300
9	Whittaker	796	14,193
10	Riley	785	23,673
11	Yates	766	20,593
12	Brown	716	197,359
13	Wood	712	95,380
14	Nuttall	710	7,536
15	Turner	710	83,267
16	Barnes	677	36,002
17	Thompson	670	89,587
18	Shaw	669	55,020
19	Walsh	662	15,864
20	Sutcliffe	620	11,839
21	Butterworth	619	10,743
22	Entwistle	618	5,210
23	Booth	615	29,559
24	Green	598	84,164
25	Duckworth	596	5,788
26	Walmsley	587	6,180
27	Wilson	579	137,750
28	Hall	578	88,053
29	Parkinson	561	14,360
30	Schofield	561	16,242
31	Clegg	548	10,197
32	Walker	544	100,304
33	Sharples	535	5,244
34	Slater	523	18,151
35	Chadwick	516	13,091
36	Johnson	484	100,458
37	Parker	477	56,883
38	Kay	468	12,865
39	Knowles	466	15,989
40	Ainsworth	463	5,936
41	Pickup	463	3,868
42	Fletcher	458	34,136
43	Whitehead	457	20,246
44	Greenhalgh	443	6,131
45	Spencer	443	27,278
46	Kenyon	439	6,248
47	Watson	438	69,539
48	Barker	420	39,196
49	Walton	416	21,088
50	Berry	413	23,740
51	Dawson	413	32,910
52	Kershaw	411	9,666
53	Ingham	406	7,443
54	Barlow	400	16,181
55	Cooper	399	72,708
56	Ashton	397	14,675
57	Fielding	392	6,661
58	Ratcliffe	383	8,266
59	Eccles	382	4,772
60	Ward	382	65,299
61	Dewhurst	381	3,553
62	Grimshaw	375	4,992
63	Buckley	373	16,269
64	Crabtree	369	6,037
65	Bolton	368	12,910
66	Tattersall	368	4,165
67	Brooks	366	29,205
68	Crossley	361	8,227
69	Whalley	360	4,728
70	Pilkington	357	5,370
71	Rushton	339	6,187
72	Stott	338	9,356
73	Bennett	337	49,110
74	Wright	336	95,951
75	Stansfield	332	4,622
76	Eastwood	327	7,069
77	Mills	324	38,788
78	Duxbury	323	2,014
79	Warburton	316	7,375
80	Morris	314	66,607
81	Simpson	314	52,391
82	Wild	308	12,250
83	Ogden	306	8,483
84	Pickles	302	6,086
85	Baron	301	3,096
86	Tomlinson	297	13,809
87	Roberts	296	112,276
88	Pollard	294	10,901
89	Bradley	292	24,034
90	Mitchell	292	60,795
91	Ormerod	289	2,401
92	Pearson	286	34,754
93	Bradshaw	285	12,284
94	Dixon	283	32,795
95	Crook	272	8,607
96	Duerden	269	1,123
97	Bentley	268	12,662
98	Isherwood	265	3,447
99	Blackburn	264	11,287
100	Marshall	263	50,203