1881 census occupation

Dress Maker surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

6,445 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 36,028 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Rees, with 49 people recorded as Dress Maker.

Surnames most linked with Dress Maker

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
101	Rees	49	26,024
102	Payne	48	26,886
103	Sharp	48	24,950
104	Greenwood	47	23,239
105	Reynolds	47	25,883
106	Burton	46	25,491
107	Walton	46	21,088
108	Ball	45	24,730
109	Shepherd	45	21,923
110	Wells	45	24,900
111	Williamson	45	26,852
112	Jennings	44	15,142
113	Knowles	44	15,989
114	Bates	43	19,015
115	Graham	43	34,451
116	Marsh	43	21,309
117	Pratt	43	17,181
118	Newton	42	22,922
119	Cole	41	27,185
120	Burgess	40	20,759
121	Sutton	40	19,057
122	Frost	39	16,800
123	Riley	39	23,673
124	Stephens	39	16,575
125	Abbott	38	13,211
126	Newman	38	22,210
127	Potter	38	19,384
128	Stone	38	21,581
129	Willis	38	15,886
130	Baldwin	37	12,774
131	Brook	37	11,590
132	Gilbert	37	16,992
133	Page	37	23,921
134	Porter	37	22,471
135	Preston	37	14,894
136	Yates	37	20,593
137	Andrews	36	28,636
138	Arnold	36	16,054
139	Gill	36	20,931
140	Harding	36	21,596
141	Moss	36	18,432
142	Clayton	35	16,272
143	Kay	35	12,865
144	Pritchard	35	16,096
145	Reed	35	21,815
146	Barber	34	18,022
147	Bishop	34	20,827
148	Dale	34	12,648
149	Miles	34	17,637
150	Rose	34	22,106
151	Wall	34	10,463
152	Glover	33	12,759
153	Hammond	33	17,002
154	Harper	33	19,184
155	Murphy	33	23,790
156	Blackburn	32	11,287
157	Briggs	32	16,242
158	Dunn	32	24,868
159	Oliver	32	21,337
160	Perkins	32	13,410
161	Read	32	19,314
162	Thorpe	32	11,830
163	Buckley	31	16,269
164	Dean	31	20,763
165	Reeves	31	12,269
166	Robson	31	19,747
167	Slater	31	18,151
168	Sutcliffe	31	11,839
169	Warren	31	19,899
170	Armstrong	30	22,891
171	Davey	30	12,184
172	Mann	30	15,786
173	May	30	18,022
174	Nicholson	30	21,253
175	Norman	30	13,722
176	Rhodes	30	13,915
177	Stanley	30	11,524
178	Sykes	30	14,399
179	Webster	30	26,040
180	Weston	30	12,197
181	Archer	29	12,355
182	Banks	29	15,330
183	Bond	29	15,814
184	Coleman	29	14,894
185	Drake	29	8,707
186	Gibbs	29	14,676
187	Grant	29	29,695
188	Schofield	29	16,242
189	Walsh	29	15,864
190	Watkins	29	18,128
191	Woodward	29	14,736
192	Ashton	28	14,675
193	Barrett	28	20,042
194	Butcher	28	12,606
195	Dickinson	28	12,771
196	Gale	28	8,531
197	Gardner	28	20,306
198	Garner	28	9,464
199	Goodwin	28	15,759
200	Hargreaves	28	12,498