1881 census occupation

Housewife surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

1,593 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 6,038 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 210 people recorded as Housewife.

Surnames most linked with Housewife

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	210	191,142
2	Shaw	71	55,020
3	Greenwood	60	23,239
4	Schofield	56	16,242
5	Wilkinson	56	45,653
6	Ashworth	51	11,942
7	Riley	44	23,673
8	Butterworth	42	10,743
9	Fletcher	41	34,136
10	Booth	40	29,559
11	Whitehead	40	20,246
12	Clegg	38	10,197
13	Dean	38	20,763
14	Sutcliffe	38	11,839
15	Dawson	37	32,910
16	Wild	36	12,250
17	Spencer	35	27,278
18	Kershaw	33	9,666
19	Whittaker	33	14,193
20	Hargreaves	32	12,498
21	Kay	32	12,865
22	Chadwick	30	13,091
23	Ogden	28	8,483
24	Williamson	28	26,852
25	Barlow	27	16,181
26	Ingham	27	7,443
27	Buckley	26	16,269
28	Stott	26	9,356
29	Walton	26	21,088
30	Newton	25	22,922
31	Parkinson	25	14,360
32	Ashton	24	14,675
33	Burrows	24	13,086
34	Clayton	24	16,272
35	Nuttall	24	7,536
36	Crabtree	23	6,037
37	Duckworth	23	5,788
38	Clough	22	6,676
39	Crossley	21	8,227
40	Hamer	21	5,605
41	Knowles	21	15,989
42	Rigby	21	8,697
43	Walsh	21	15,864
44	Bradshaw	20	12,284
45	Entwistle	20	5,210
46	Hardman	20	6,003
47	Thornton	20	15,067
48	Pollard	19	10,901
49	Glover	18	12,759
50	Whitaker	18	8,462
51	Bentley	17	12,662
52	Cooke	17	16,523
53	Fielding	17	6,661
54	Firth	17	9,950
55	Rothwell	17	5,489
56	Baxter	16	17,875
57	Bradbury	16	8,665
58	Fielden	16	1,748
59	Naylor	16	11,272
60	Platt	16	7,918
61	Radcliffe	16	3,033
62	Rushton	16	6,187
63	Stansfield	16	4,622
64	Walmsley	16	6,180
65	Woodhead	16	5,606
66	Binns	15	4,965
67	Blackburn	15	11,287
68	Bottomley	15	4,974
69	Brierley	15	5,333
70	Dewhurst	15	3,553
71	Greenhalgh	15	6,131
72	Hanson	15	9,652
73	Kenyon	15	6,248
74	Oldham	15	5,288
75	Tattersall	15	4,165
76	Warburton	15	7,375
77	Whalley	15	4,728
78	Whitworth	15	5,013
79	Broadbent	14	6,399
80	Dyson	14	9,699
81	Eastwood	14	7,069
82	Ellison	14	6,264
83	Kennedy	14	18,038
84	Pickles	14	6,086
85	Whittle	14	6,516
86	Wilcock	14	4,272
87	Bamford	13	4,516
88	Davenport	13	5,670
89	Fitton	13	3,373
90	Greaves	13	8,773
91	Ormerod	13	2,401
92	Pickup	13	3,868
93	Pilling	13	3,614
94	Proctor	13	7,340
95	Ratcliffe	13	8,266
96	Senior	13	6,854
97	Thornley	13	3,323
98	Bannister	12	5,172
99	Broughton	12	5,564
100	Crompton	12	5,035