1881 census occupation

Scholar surnames in the 1881 census

This page lists surnames most often recorded for children listed as Scholar in 1881. Scholar was the census term for a child in education, not a job in the modern sense.

Occupation summary

27,800 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 4,121,311 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Drover, with 32 people recorded as Scholars.

Surnames most linked with Scholar

These figures mostly count children, so they should not be read as a list of adult trades. A high Scholar count usually points to surnames found in larger families or places with many school-age children in the 1881 census.

What Scholar means in the 1881 census

In the 1881 census, Scholar usually means a child who was attending school or receiving education. It was commonly written in the occupation column because the census still needed a way to describe children who were too young for paid work.

That makes this page different from pages for jobs such as Coal Miner, Dressmaker or Blacksmith. The table below is not showing families who worked as scholars. It is showing surnames most often attached to children recorded with that census description.

For genealogy work, Scholar is still useful. A large number can point to surnames with many school-age children in 1881, and it can help separate household structure from adult employment. To understand what adults in those families did for work, the other occupation pages are usually more informative.

#	Surname	People	1881 total
12101	Drover	32	186
12102	Dufeu	32	17
12103	Dun	32	182
12104	Durnell	32	151
12105	Dyble	32	161
12106	Earles	32	196
12107	Easom	32	201
12108	Edwardes	32	165
12109	Ellerbeck	32	128
12110	Ells	32	141
12111	Elstob	32	197
12112	Emmons	32	112
12113	Estcourt	32	163
12114	Estill	32	121
12115	Exon	32	160
12116	Eyton	32	147
12117	Fake	32	170
12118	Falcon	32	139
12119	Finan	32	206
12120	Flewitt	32	142
12121	Flick	32	154
12122	Fursland	32	94
12123	Gallier	32	165
12124	Gambrell	32	109
12125	Gayner	32	162
12126	Genner	32	177
12127	Gillon	32	761
12128	Goggin	32	146
12129	Goodban	32	166
12130	Goodinson	32	170
12131	Goodliff	32	136
12132	Gosnell	32	154
12133	Grapes	32	171
12134	Greenup	32	186
12135	Guess	32	218
12136	Guntrip	32	170
12137	Haddleton	32	148
12138	Haddy	32	164
12139	Haggarty	32	577
12140	Haldane	32	766
12141	Hallifax	32	144
12142	Hallmark	32	196
12143	Harbron	32	160
12144	Illidge	32	185
12145	Ingley	32	156
12146	Jordison	32	193
12147	Joyes	32	151
12148	Just	32	226
12149	Kennet	32	133
12150	Kiddell	32	167
12151	Killerby	32	110
12152	Killingworth	32	119
12153	Kitney	32	202
12154	Knifton	32	174
12155	Koch	32	168
12156	Macefield	32	150
12157	Mapes	32	140
12158	Mapplebeck	32	179
12159	Marfleet	32	186
12160	Martinson	32	144
12161	Matty	32	119
12162	Mayhead	32	107
12163	Mccall	32	3,305
12164	Mcintosh	32	11,654
12165	Mcmullen	32	1,024
12166	Mean	32	207
12167	Medlyn	32	122
12168	Meer	32	128
12169	Meggison	32	133
12170	Merson	32	337
12171	Messent	32	178
12172	Minchinton	32	124
12173	Miner	32	224
12174	Moorse	32	117
12175	Mordecai	32	217
12176	Morrice	32	879
12177	Morsley	32	138
12178	Mowatt	32	467
12179	Mullholland	32	357
12180	Mulvaney	32	169
12181	Munks	32	186
12182	Munsey	32	168
12183	Neeves	32	161
12184	Newsum	32	108
12185	Nixey	32	163
12186	Noot	32	128
12187	Ogdon	32	98
12188	Oldaker	32	158
12189	Ong	32	165
12190	Orwell	32	127
12191	Oswick	32	110
12192	Otto	32	166
12193	Oxspring	32	183
12194	Pappin	32	119
12195	Peartree	32	122
12196	Peele	32	148
12197	Pettifor	32	137
12198	Pexton	32	180
12199	Pinckney	32	123
12200	Porthouse	32	135