1881 census occupation

Cotton Winder surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

2,150 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 14,209 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 278 people recorded as Cotton Winder.

Surnames most linked with Cotton Winder

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	278	191,142
2	Robinson	133	95,300
3	Jackson	131	83,594
4	Walker	121	100,304
5	Turner	119	83,267
6	Wilson	112	137,750
7	Hargreaves	108	12,498
8	Ashworth	106	11,942
9	Walsh	106	15,864
10	Greenwood	105	23,239
11	Wilkinson	105	45,653
12	Hall	104	88,053
13	Yates	102	20,593
14	Shaw	95	55,020
15	Booth	89	29,559
16	Riley	86	23,673
17	Schofield	79	16,242
18	Barlow	75	16,181
19	Cooper	75	72,708
20	Fletcher	75	34,136
21	Ward	75	65,299
22	Nuttall	73	7,536
23	Whitehead	73	20,246
24	Allen	70	56,290
25	Butterworth	69	10,743
26	Kay	69	12,865
27	Dawson	66	32,910
28	Whittaker	66	14,193
29	Sharples	65	5,244
30	Barnes	64	36,002
31	Ashton	63	14,675
32	Berry	63	23,740
33	Clegg	60	10,197
34	Simpson	60	52,391
35	Duckworth	59	5,788
36	Entwistle	59	5,210
37	Greenhalgh	59	6,131
38	Parkinson	59	14,360
39	Sutcliffe	58	11,839
40	Ainsworth	57	5,936
41	Mills	57	38,788
42	Kenyon	54	6,248
43	Slater	53	18,151
44	Pearson	52	34,754
45	Kelly	50	30,644
46	Grimshaw	49	4,992
47	Walmsley	48	6,180
48	Chadwick	47	13,091
49	Bolton	46	12,910
50	Briggs	46	16,242
51	Wild	46	12,250
52	Spencer	45	27,278
53	Tomlinson	45	13,809
54	Bradshaw	44	12,284
55	Clayton	44	16,272
56	Walton	44	21,088
57	Whalley	44	4,728
58	Brooks	43	29,205
59	Dewhurst	42	3,553
60	Fielding	42	6,661
61	Oldham	42	5,288
62	Duxbury	41	2,014
63	Hampson	41	5,411
64	Kershaw	41	9,666
65	Ogden	41	8,483
66	Atkinson	40	29,154
67	Tattersall	40	4,165
68	Knowles	39	15,989
69	Gregson	38	4,146
70	Rigby	38	8,697
71	Buckley	37	16,269
72	Crompton	37	5,035
73	Hardman	37	6,003
74	Pickup	37	3,868
75	Woods	37	18,768
76	Bradley	36	24,034
77	Bury	36	2,237
78	Crook	36	8,607
79	Fish	36	5,580
80	Ormerod	36	2,401
81	Williamson	36	26,852
82	Bentley	35	12,662
83	Brierley	35	5,333
84	Crossley	35	8,227
85	Grundy	35	6,133
86	Pilkington	35	5,370
87	Warburton	35	7,375
88	Dean	34	20,763
89	Mellor	34	10,568
90	Thornley	34	3,323
91	Ball	33	24,730
92	Worthington	33	5,992
93	Eccles	32	4,772
94	Rothwell	32	5,489
95	Wolstenholme	32	2,392
96	Crabtree	31	6,037
97	Partington	31	4,237
98	Isherwood	30	3,447
99	Mercer	29	7,893
100	Moss	29	18,432