1881 census occupation

Silk Weaver surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

1,212 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 8,369 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 209 people recorded as Silk Weaver.

Surnames most linked with Silk Weaver

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	209	191,142
2	Johnson	114	100,458
3	Hall	99	88,053
4	Clarke	80	60,196
5	Bailey	79	44,948
6	Cooper	77	72,708
7	Bennett	66	49,110
8	Moore	64	58,817
9	Barber	60	18,022
10	Ball	59	24,730
11	Pearson	57	34,754
12	Booth	56	29,559
13	Potts	51	10,001
14	Butterworth	48	10,743
15	Shatwell	47	409
16	Ogden	46	8,483
17	Partington	46	4,237
18	Randle	46	2,514
19	Barlow	45	16,181
20	Schofield	43	16,242
21	Williamson	43	26,852
22	Dean	41	20,763
23	Buckley	40	16,269
24	Yates	40	20,593
25	Davenport	38	5,670
26	Dawson	36	32,910
27	Whitehead	36	20,246
28	Berry	35	23,740
29	Wagstaff	35	3,733
30	Collier	34	10,022
31	Nixon	34	9,111
32	Payne	34	26,886
33	Atkins	33	11,186
34	Chadwick	33	13,091
35	Woodward	33	14,736
36	Burgess	32	20,759
37	Whittle	31	6,516
38	Dale	30	12,648
39	Fitton	30	3,373
40	Bradley	29	24,034
41	Chadderton	29	731
42	Kent	29	12,591
43	Moss	29	18,432
44	Royle	29	3,945
45	Bamford	28	4,516
46	Boardman	28	4,810
47	Newton	28	22,922
48	Walton	28	21,088
49	Watts	28	25,021
50	Kenyon	27	6,248
51	Swindells	27	1,915
52	Seddon	26	4,863
53	Whittaker	26	14,193
54	Mottershead	25	1,007
55	Wardle	25	5,805
56	Arnold	24	16,054
57	Goodwin	24	15,759
58	Slater	24	18,151
59	Daniels	23	9,394
60	Garner	23	9,464
61	Gilbert	23	16,992
62	Orme	23	2,506
63	Beswick	22	2,922
64	Birchenough	22	509
65	Eaton	22	8,377
66	Grimshaw	22	4,992
67	Hammond	22	17,002
68	Hampson	22	5,411
69	Marston	22	2,785
70	Oldham	22	5,288
71	Ratcliffe	22	8,266
72	Rowbotham	22	1,468
73	Barton	21	16,190
74	Birch	21	12,264
75	Bond	21	15,814
76	Brierley	21	5,333
77	Carpenter	21	10,221
78	Clough	21	6,676
79	Kay	21	12,865
80	Rayner	21	7,461
81	Broadhurst	20	3,031
82	Chaplin	20	4,289
83	Grundy	20	6,133
84	Peters	20	10,486
85	Pownall	20	1,292
86	Rollason	20	965
87	Ashworth	19	11,942
88	Gosling	19	4,669
89	Neale	19	7,093
90	Oldfield	19	4,940
91	Platt	19	7,918
92	Smethurst	19	2,288
93	Warner	19	10,908
94	Andrew	18	9,483
95	Ashton	18	14,675
96	Aspinall	18	4,111
97	Cheetham	18	4,637
98	Jaques	18	2,218
99	Orton	18	2,810
100	Prescott	18	4,227