1881 census occupation

House Keeper surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

2,564 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 9,901 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Davies, with 229 people recorded as House Keeper.

Surnames most linked with House Keeper

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	Davies	229	152,295
2	Wood	120	95,380
3	Robinson	110	95,300
4	Walker	101	100,304
5	Jackson	96	83,594
6	Hall	94	88,053
7	Morris	88	66,607
8	Shaw	68	55,020
9	Wilkinson	64	45,653
10	Bennett	60	49,110
11	Watson	60	69,539
12	Richards	58	45,120
13	Riley	58	23,673
14	Ellis	56	43,381
15	Greenwood	56	23,239
16	Richardson	51	50,857
17	Parry	48	22,775
18	Hargreaves	47	12,498
19	Schofield	43	16,242
20	Ashworth	42	11,942
21	Dawson	42	32,910
22	Jenkins	42	35,237
23	Sutcliffe	42	11,839
24	Buckley	40	16,269
25	Berry	38	23,740
26	Pearson	38	34,754
27	Whittaker	38	14,193
28	Booth	35	29,559
29	Rees	35	26,024
30	Slater	34	18,151
31	Chadwick	33	13,091
32	Whitehead	33	20,246
33	Knowles	32	15,989
34	Walmsley	32	6,180
35	Yates	32	20,593
36	Barlow	31	16,181
37	Ashton	30	14,675
38	Bolton	30	12,910
39	Fox	30	26,486
40	Newton	30	22,922
41	Walsh	30	15,864
42	Gibson	29	36,370
43	Parkinson	29	14,360
44	Burns	28	20,128
45	Duckworth	28	5,788
46	Marsh	27	21,309
47	Moss	27	18,432
48	Pickup	27	3,868
49	Dean	26	20,763
50	Graham	26	34,451
51	Kay	26	12,865
52	Kershaw	25	9,666
53	Owens	25	14,922
54	Walton	25	21,088
55	Entwistle	24	5,210
56	Rigby	24	8,697
57	Tomlinson	24	13,809
58	Wild	24	12,250
59	Armstrong	23	22,891
60	Briggs	23	16,242
61	Butterworth	23	10,743
62	Dobson	23	13,189
63	Fielding	22	6,661
64	Greenhalgh	22	6,131
65	Griffith	22	9,759
66	Stott	22	9,356
67	Clegg	21	10,197
68	Eastwood	21	7,069
69	Ogden	21	8,483
70	Sharples	21	5,244
71	Whittle	21	6,516
72	Blackburn	20	11,287
73	Whitaker	20	8,462
74	Banks	19	15,330
75	Clayton	19	16,272
76	Cooke	19	16,523
77	Dickinson	19	12,771
78	Grimshaw	19	4,992
79	Murray	19	37,222
80	Robson	19	19,747
81	Sykes	19	14,399
82	Bentley	18	12,662
83	Crossley	18	8,227
84	Mann	18	15,786
85	Mellor	18	10,568
86	Pollard	18	10,901
87	John	17	10,815
88	Kenyon	17	6,248
89	Morton	17	16,044
90	Pilkington	17	5,370
91	Platt	17	7,918
92	Ratcliffe	17	8,266
93	Clough	16	6,676
94	Dyson	16	9,699
95	Hamer	16	5,605
96	Ingham	16	7,443
97	Naylor	16	11,272
98	Pickles	16	6,086
99	Rhodes	16	13,915
100	Thornton	16	15,067