1881 census occupation

Worsted Spinner surnames in the 1881 census

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

Occupation summary

1,100 surnames are listed with this occupation, covering 8,975 people in the 1881 records.

The leading surname here is Greenwood, with 163 people recorded as Worsted Spinner.

Surnames most linked with Worsted Spinner

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	Greenwood	163	23,239
2	Robinson	148	95,300
3	Mitchell	128	60,795
4	Wilkinson	115	45,653
5	Wood	109	95,380
6	Sutcliffe	106	11,839
7	Sharp	78	24,950
8	Brook	75	11,590
9	Jowett	75	3,260
10	Barker	71	39,196
11	Moore	70	58,817
12	Naylor	68	11,272
13	Whitaker	67	8,462
14	Hanson	66	9,652
15	Binns	64	4,965
16	Firth	62	9,950
17	Pickles	62	6,086
18	Bottomley	61	4,974
19	Shaw	60	55,020
20	Rhodes	59	13,915
21	Barraclough	58	2,966
22	Briggs	58	16,242
23	Priestley	58	5,074
24	Crowther	57	8,948
25	Sugden	57	3,461
26	Thornton	57	15,067
27	Jagger	54	2,370
28	Booth	53	29,559
29	Midgley	52	4,013
30	Shackleton	52	3,381
31	Pearson	51	34,754
32	Riley	51	23,673
33	Illingworth	50	3,395
34	Ingham	50	7,443
35	Spencer	50	27,278
36	Ackroyd	49	2,802
37	Simpson	49	52,391
38	Woodhead	48	5,606
39	Crossley	47	8,227
40	Feather	47	1,529
41	Ambler	46	2,647
42	Atkinson	46	29,154
43	Hargreaves	46	12,498
44	Butterfield	45	3,984
45	Kershaw	45	9,666
46	Crabtree	44	6,037
47	Craven	44	5,769
48	Dawson	43	32,910
49	Fletcher	40	34,136
50	Clayton	38	16,272
51	Murgatroyd	37	2,257
52	Wade	36	11,824
53	Broadbent	35	6,399
54	Kellett	35	2,599
55	Stead	34	6,126
56	Bland	33	6,214
57	Knowles	33	15,989
58	Walton	33	21,088
59	Gill	32	20,931
60	Walsh	32	15,864
61	Gledhill	31	4,452
62	Robertshaw	31	2,449
63	Schofield	31	16,242
64	Sunderland	31	3,436
65	Bentley	30	12,662
66	Berry	30	23,740
67	Bradley	30	24,034
68	Drake	30	8,707
69	Pollard	30	10,901
70	Armitage	29	7,647
71	Clough	29	6,676
72	Barrett	28	20,042
73	Bartle	28	1,763
74	Haley	28	3,555
75	Halliday	28	6,183
76	Waddington	28	4,864
77	Webster	28	26,040
78	Baxter	27	17,875
79	Farrar	27	3,992
80	Hainsworth	27	1,904
81	Ramsden	27	5,465
82	Blackburn	26	11,287
83	Dobson	26	13,189
84	Eastwood	26	7,069
85	Bancroft	25	2,901
86	Benn	25	1,710
87	Cockroft	25	1,266
88	Dewhirst	25	1,428
89	Garside	25	4,328
90	Milnes	25	2,654
91	Preston	25	14,894
92	Rawnsley	24	978
93	Wilman	24	606
94	Buckley	23	16,269
95	Ogden	23	8,483
96	Myers	22	7,817
97	Nicholson	22	21,253
98	Peel	22	5,398
99	Rushworth	22	2,480
100	Thorp	22	4,061