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 Cardall, with 23 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
14701	Cardall	23	95
14702	Carnegie	23	988
14703	Carveth	23	117
14704	Cate	23	96
14705	Cavender	23	88
14706	Caveney	23	160
14707	Cawdell	23	93
14708	Cay	23	109
14709	Challender	23	102
14710	Charleton	23	171
14711	Christon	23	154
14712	Clarence	23	116
14713	Clavey	23	96
14714	Cockshoot	23	145
14715	Colebourne	23	72
14716	Collens	23	145
14717	Comish	23	12
14718	Condy	23	162
14719	Conners	23	164
14720	Conoly	23	124
14721	Conor	23	102
14722	Consitt	23	69
14723	Coomb	23	103
14724	Corbey	23	119
14725	Cordall	23	87
14726	Cornett	23	86
14727	Cotgreave	23	91
14728	Covel	23	100
14729	Cradduck	23	125
14730	Craner	23	95
14731	Creagh	23	125
14732	Creedon	23	85
14733	Crouchley	23	90
14734	Culkin	23	95
14735	Cunnah	23	127
14736	Cushway	23	133
14737	Dall	23	562
14738	Dansey	23	114
14739	Darnborough	23	88
14740	Davage	23	112
14741	Daymond	23	163
14742	Deedman	23	96
14743	Deem	23	100
14744	Defty	23	124
14745	Delf	23	153
14746	Derwent	23	143
14747	Dilnot	23	103
14748	Dinwoodie	23	318
14749	Dirkin	23	110
14750	Dives	23	126
14751	Donally	23	127
14752	Dougan	23	720
14753	Doxford	23	98
14754	Duddington	23	90
14755	Dummett	23	124
14756	Edes	23	111
14757	Element	23	130
14758	Elger	23	172
14759	Emmanuel	23	118
14760	Ennals	23	70
14761	Evatt	23	114
14762	Fabb	23	115
14763	Fain	23	87
14764	Fairer	23	127
14765	Falder	23	73
14766	Farmiloe	23	122
14767	Farrelly	23	160
14768	Farringdon	23	106
14769	Felthouse	23	85
14770	Filley	23	75
14771	Fink	23	117
14772	Fitzwater	23	132
14773	Fleetham	23	133
14774	Flinton	23	111
14775	Fogwell	23	96
14776	Follis	23	87
14777	Fordy	23	94
14778	Forecast	23	97
14779	Fowley	23	103
14780	Franey	23	113
14781	Freed	23	130
14782	Fremlin	23	103
14783	Friston	23	90
14784	Furbank	23	109
14785	Gager	23	117
14786	Galway	23	145
14787	Garcia	23	136
14788	Garrat	23	115
14789	Gearey	23	121
14790	Gepp	23	117
14791	Gerrett	23	120
14792	Goreham	23	138
14793	Goulbourn	23	118
14794	Gouldstone	23	113
14795	Govey	23	142
14796	Gowar	23	83
14797	Gowman	23	94
14798	Gradon	23	101
14799	Grater	23	82
14800	Grinyer	23	130