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 Bignall, with 109 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
5001	Bignall	109	501
5002	Brent	109	578
5003	Britt	109	528
5004	Brocklesby	109	483
5005	Cantrill	109	406
5006	Challen	109	535
5007	Coburn	109	571
5008	Combs	109	588
5009	Dedman	109	568
5010	Dewsnap	109	454
5011	Downie	109	3,521
5012	Durose	109	455
5013	Erskine	109	1,853
5014	Farman	109	565
5015	Gatley	109	512
5016	Gedge	109	585
5017	Glazebrook	109	536
5018	Goldstone	109	501
5019	Kellow	109	518
5020	Ormston	109	524
5021	Panting	109	502
5022	Parham	109	452
5023	Petherick	109	504
5024	Plank	109	519
5025	Poppleton	109	524
5026	Poynton	109	505
5027	Prideaux	109	600
5028	Readman	109	730
5029	Shinn	109	508
5030	Stabler	109	517
5031	Standish	109	583
5032	Timbrell	109	495
5033	Tomsett	109	471
5034	Trembath	109	529
5035	Tuckwell	109	516
5036	Tulip	109	482
5037	Vicars	109	521
5038	Voce	109	402
5039	Westgate	109	507
5040	Allenby	108	426
5041	Ashfield	108	567
5042	Barfield	108	607
5043	Brightwell	108	624
5044	Broadway	108	609
5045	Byles	108	518
5046	Cranshaw	108	548
5047	Cruttenden	108	446
5048	Cubbon	108	76
5049	Dearnley	108	536
5050	Dibley	108	406
5051	Evenden	108	547
5052	Fairhead	108	565
5053	Gundry	108	480
5054	Hamnett	108	472
5055	Hard	108	553
5056	Harold	108	648
5057	Ketley	108	478
5058	Kingsley	108	524
5059	Kynaston	108	564
5060	Markey	108	532
5061	Massingham	108	502
5062	Meeks	108	517
5063	Melia	108	718
5064	Moy	108	582
5065	Mullis	108	577
5066	Olliver	108	609
5067	Porteous	108	2,030
5068	Sanford	108	555
5069	Sharkey	108	685
5070	Sizer	108	524
5071	Summerton	108	434
5072	Threadgold	108	508
5073	Tullett	108	624
5074	Twyman	108	450
5075	Vinall	108	495
5076	Warmington	108	555
5077	Wilshire	108	593
5078	Witton	108	607
5079	Wyman	108	648
5080	Yaxley	108	473
5081	Allaway	107	537
5082	Amies	107	496
5083	Bagg	107	517
5084	Barras	107	582
5085	Barret	107	851
5086	Berrington	107	542
5087	Blease	107	604
5088	Bousfield	107	597
5089	Castell	107	509
5090	Coghlan	107	549
5091	Dench	107	569
5092	Diaper	107	513
5093	Dugan	107	575
5094	Edginton	107	501
5095	Fergusson	107	1,530
5096	Frewin	107	462
5097	Gidley	107	520
5098	Gladman	107	550
5099	Gladstone	107	808
5100	Goldthorp	107	456