I’ve been looking at data from the electoral rolls for 2002/3. The distribution of Micklethwaites (and variants) is quite interesting (to me at least!). Based on postcodes and a sample of about 750 the results are:

1. S*                    157      all Sheffield
2. S70*                99        all Barnsley
3. LS*                  73        all Leeds
4. HD*                 72       all Huddersfield
5. WF*                65        all Wakefield
6. DN1+              51        Doncaster
7. LS15+             42        Outer Leeds
8. LS1+               29        Inner Leeds
9. S71                  26        Monk Bretton/Royston
10. S70                  25        Central Barnsley
11. HD1                 23        Huddersfield
12. YO1+               23        York/Malton area
13. HD7                 22        Colne Valley
14. WF12               21        Dewsbury/Thornhill
15. S36                  19        Penistone/Stocksbridge
16. S72                  17        Cudworth
17. WF2+              17        Wakefield/Castleford/Pontefract/Ossett
18. YO11+             17        Scarborough/Filey/Brid
19. S1+                  16        Sheffield centre
20. S60*                15        Rotherham
21. WF14              15        Mirfield
22. DN22              14        Retford

By comparison, from the 1881 census, with a sample of about 450, and based on Poor Law Union districts (which don’t map on to postcodes of course):

1.             Huddersfield     98
2.             Dewsbury           72
3.             Barnsley             69
4.             Wortley               61
5.             Wakefield           27
6.             Bramley              17
7.             Ashton u/Lyne  16
8.             York                     15
9.             Rotherham        12
10.             Hemsworth         8
11.             Pontefract           7
12.             Doncaster           6
13.             Rochdale             6

I hope you find it interesting too!

I’ve recently been extracting information from the electoral rolls for 2002/3. The results for location will be in another blog – this one concentrates on firstnames.

Here are the “top ten” – the number following the name is the number extracted from the 750+ entries with surname Micklethwaite or one of the main variants:

1. David                24
2. John                  21
3. Paul                   15
4. Margaret          14
5. Andrew             12
6. Mary                  12
7. Stephen            12
8. Susan                12
9. Ian                     11
10. Roy                    11