1881 census occupation

Farmers Wife surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

5,422 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 37,113 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Fisher, with 46 people recorded as Farmers Wife.

Surnames most linked with Farmers Wife

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	Fisher	46	34,989
102	Graham	45	34,451
103	Coates	43	11,178
104	Knight	43	36,756
105	Parkinson	42	14,360
106	Page	41	23,921
107	Reed	41	21,815
108	Walton	41	21,088
109	Webster	41	26,040
110	Barber	40	18,022
111	Dickinson	40	12,771
112	Nelson	40	14,407
113	Newton	40	22,922
114	Shepherd	40	21,923
115	Watts	40	25,021
116	Carr	39	21,558
117	Daniel	39	6,608
118	Elliott	39	25,315
119	Nicholson	39	21,253
120	Reynolds	39	25,883
121	Walters	39	14,268
122	Bradley	38	24,034
123	Butler	38	29,165
124	Pratt	38	17,181
125	Day	37	27,843
126	Fox	37	26,486
127	Matthews	37	26,049
128	Oliver	37	21,337
129	Robson	37	19,747
130	Tomlinson	37	13,809
131	Dean	36	20,763
132	Brooks	35	29,205
133	Knowles	35	15,989
134	Sharp	35	24,950
135	Wells	35	24,900
136	Nicholls	34	15,623
137	Potter	34	19,384
138	Read	34	19,314
139	Miles	33	17,637
140	Williamson	33	26,852
141	Yates	33	20,593
142	Bishop	32	20,827
143	Dobson	32	13,189
144	Preston	32	14,894
145	Gardner	31	20,306
146	Perkins	31	13,410
147	Vaughan	31	10,222
148	Warren	31	19,899
149	Cooke	30	16,523
150	Goodwin	30	15,759
151	Hargreaves	30	12,498
152	Harper	30	19,184
153	Kirby	30	11,367
154	Nicholas	30	5,834
155	Todd	30	15,284
156	Barton	29	16,190
157	Bond	29	15,814
158	Dodd	29	12,112
159	Griffin	29	14,053
160	Marsh	29	21,309
161	May	29	18,022
162	Moss	29	18,432
163	Porter	29	22,471
164	Slater	29	18,151
165	Waters	29	12,022
166	Bird	28	22,826
167	Dent	28	5,714
168	Mann	28	15,786
169	Meredith	28	6,044
170	Barlow	27	16,181
171	Mellor	27	10,568
172	Riley	27	23,673
173	Sanderson	27	12,425
174	Skinner	27	15,141
175	Sykes	27	14,399
176	Archer	26	12,355
177	Bullock	26	9,713
178	Gilbert	26	16,992
179	Gould	26	10,773
180	Morley	26	11,962
181	Pike	26	8,640
182	Baldwin	25	12,774
183	Manning	25	9,465
184	Schofield	25	16,242
185	Thorne	25	6,282
186	Whitaker	25	8,462
187	Whitfield	25	5,983
188	Andrew	24	9,483
189	Curtis	24	16,949
190	Norman	24	13,722
191	Park	24	9,319
192	Stevenson	24	21,015
193	Wallis	24	10,105
194	Whitehead	24	20,246
195	Whittaker	24	14,193
196	Wild	24	12,250
197	Woods	24	18,768
198	Arnold	23	16,054
199	Croft	23	7,060
200	French	23	14,624