1881 census occupation

Iron Moulder surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

1,656 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 6,151 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Thompson, with 97 people recorded as Iron Moulder.

Surnames most linked with Iron Moulder

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	Thompson	97	89,587
2	Walker	94	100,304
3	Wilkinson	70	45,653
4	Simpson	59	52,391
5	Shaw	55	55,020
6	Booth	52	29,559
7	Bell	50	56,099
8	Pearson	49	34,754
9	Barker	47	39,196
10	Dawson	40	32,910
11	Greenwood	40	23,239
12	Slater	34	18,151
13	Ogden	32	8,483
14	Armstrong	31	22,891
15	Whitehouse	29	7,785
16	Briggs	26	16,242
17	Whittaker	26	14,193
18	Schofield	25	16,242
19	Clayton	24	16,272
20	Glover	23	12,759
21	Mather	23	7,433
22	Bates	22	19,015
23	Yates	22	20,593
24	Butterworth	21	10,743
25	Hardman	21	6,003
26	Morton	21	16,044
27	Rodgers	21	8,211
28	Sykes	21	14,399
29	Bagnall	20	2,569
30	Birch	20	12,264
31	Campbell	20	50,681
32	Kay	20	12,865
33	Kershaw	20	9,666
34	Parkinson	20	14,360
35	Platt	20	7,918
36	Chadwick	19	13,091
37	Stringer	19	5,963
38	Swift	19	9,258
39	Ashton	18	14,675
40	Ashworth	18	11,942
41	Burns	18	20,128
42	Hanson	18	9,652
43	Ratcliffe	18	8,266
44	Sutcliffe	18	11,839
45	Whitaker	18	8,462
46	Wild	18	12,250
47	Brook	17	11,590
48	Crowther	17	8,948
49	Hargreaves	17	12,498
50	Tomlinson	17	13,809
51	Windle	17	1,702
52	Clegg	16	10,197
53	Dobson	16	13,189
54	Jukes	16	1,814
55	Kenyon	16	6,248
56	Myers	16	7,817
57	Armitage	15	7,647
58	Bentley	15	12,662
59	Bryan	15	7,426
60	Clough	15	6,676
61	Craven	15	5,769
62	Crossley	15	8,227
63	Farrar	15	3,992
64	Ingham	15	7,443
65	Ramsden	15	5,465
66	Warburton	15	7,375
67	Bradbury	14	8,665
68	Derbyshire	14	3,118
69	Dickinson	14	12,771
70	Dyson	14	9,699
71	Eastwood	14	7,069
72	Johnston	14	24,321
73	Noble	14	12,481
74	Oxley	14	4,199
75	Potts	14	10,001
76	Boardman	13	4,810
77	Grundy	13	6,133
78	Hadley	13	4,070
79	Hamilton	13	22,515
80	Nuttall	13	7,536
81	Pollard	13	10,901
82	Stanley	13	11,524
83	Ainsworth	12	5,936
84	Aston	12	4,957
85	Beighton	12	463
86	Boden	12	2,424
87	Connell	12	5,144
88	Crook	12	8,607
89	Gregson	12	4,146
90	Mortimer	12	6,250
91	Needham	12	6,368
92	Siddall	12	2,197
93	Stacey	12	6,727
94	Vickers	12	7,669
95	Whitworth	12	5,013
96	Bower	11	5,485
97	Brindley	11	2,291
98	Charlton	11	8,568
99	Platts	11	2,006
100	Rowley	11	7,865