Orkney Surnames in the 1901 Census

(Report date: 03/05/24)

Surname	Count
?	5
Adamson	20
Agnew	1
Aim	15
Aird	4
Aitchison	3
Aitken	31
Aitkin	11
Alexander	36
Allan	186
Allen	7
Alquist	1
Anderson	240
Angel	2
Angus	54
Annal	94
Annand	1
Archibald	2
Arcus	7
Armour	8
Armstrong	1
Arnott	1
Arthur	12
Atkin	4
Auld	1
Bachi	2
Baikie	121
Baikie or Banks	1
Bailey	5
Baillie	13
Bain	46
Baldwin	3
Balfour	24
Ballanden	2
Ballantine	3
Ballantyne	30
Ballentine	1
Ballentyne	2
Banks	61
Barclay	6
Barnett	33
Barney	1
Barron	4
Bayspoole	1
Beatton	6
Begg	9
Belcombe	1
Bell	12
Benston	12
Berstan	4
Berstane	4
Berston	28
Bertram	14
Betteries	1
Bews	228
Bias	21
Bichan	113
Bicket	1
Bilton	1
Bishop	6
Black	11
Blair	1
Boaden	1
Borwick	81
Boyde	1
Brass	136
Brebnor	1
Breck	8
Bremner	53
Brewer	10
Brigden	1
Broadbent	1
Brock	8
Brodie	14
Brook	3
Brooks	1
Brough	33
Brown	194
Brownlie	5
Bruce	111
Buchan	11
Budge	161
Burgar	13
Burgess	24
Burgher	39
Burghes	4
Burghies	3
Burke	2
Burnett	8
Byas	3
Byers	7
Cadger	1
Caithness	43
Calder	19
Cambell	2
Campbell	58
Campell	1
Caraye ?	1
Carigie	2
Carrell	2
Carruthers	1
Carter	6
Caskey	9
Cassells	4
Cassie	2
Chalmers	145
Chambers	4
Chapman	1
Charleson	3
Cheesman	1
Cheyne	13
Chisholm	1
Christie	8
Chrystall	8
Clark	30
Clarke	1
Clayton	1
Cleal	2
Cleat	5
Cload	4
Clouston	237
Clyne	14
Cock	17
Cockburn	2
Coghill	20
Cogle	6
Collier	1
Comlaquoy	8
Comloquoy	1
Condron	1
Conroy	7
Cook	6
Cooper	169
Copeland	1
Copland	54
Cormack	63
Corner	4
Corrigal	34
Corrigall	130
Corse	28
Corsie	63
Corston	4
Cosens	1
Costie	25
Coupar	4
Couper	27
Courtenay	1
Coutts	2
Cowan	3
Cowie	2
Cowper	4
Cox	2
Cragie	3
Craigie	245
Craven	1
Crawford	1
Crear	6
Creelman	15
Crichton	8
Crickmore	4
Cristie	4
Cromarty	134
Cronin	3
Crowe	5
Croy	67
Cruickshank	16
Cruickshanks	6
Cruikshank	1
Cruikshanks	2
Cruise	2
Cuming	1
Cumming	85
Curran	2
Cursiter	77
Cusator	5
Cusiter	19
Cuthbert	3
Cutt	98
Dall	2
Dallas	1
Dass	17
Davidson	46
Davie	12
Davies	1
Davis	2
Dawson	1
Dearness	104
Deerness	5
Delday	51
Deldie	4
Dempster	3
Dennison	31
Dewar	7
Dick	16
Dickey	5
Dickson	34
Dishan	17
Dixon	1
Doake	2
Dobson	1
Donald	4
Donaldson	50
Dorns ?	1
Douglas	7
Doull	15
Downie	2
Dreaver	16
Drever	403
Drummond	19
Drybrough	2
Drysdale	1
Duff	1
Dunbar	1
Duncan	85
Dundas	4
Dunlop	4
Dunnet	69
Dunnett	11
Durno	5
Durran	2
Duthie	5
Earle ?	1
Ellis	10
Ellison	2
Elphinston	3
Elphinstone	16
Emerson	2
Esplen	1
Esselemont	6
Esslemont	7
Esson	55
Eunson	128
Ewenson	3
Ewing	3
Falconer	4
Farquarson	2
Farquhar	23
Fea	14
Fergus	22
Ferrier	2
Fiddler	51
Fife	1
Findlater	9
Findlay	37
Finlater	9
Finlay	2
Finlayson	8
Finnie	2
Firth	159
Fisher	4
Fitzsimons	7
Flaws	39
Fleming	3
Flett	443
Flitcher	3
Florence	2
Flynn	2
Folseter	1
Folsetter	7
Folster	38
Forbes	18
Ford	1
Fotheringham	42
Fotheringhame	21
Foubister	183
Foules	2
Foulis	50
Fox	10
Franklin	1
Fraser	15
Frazer	4
Frisken	12
Fullerton	1
Fyffe	1
Gaddie	4
Gair	3
Gall	1
Galloway	2
Garden	9
Garrick	6
Garrioch	126
Garriock	89
Garson	129
Gaudie	30
Geddes	8
Geddis	1
Gerrard	12
Gibb	1
Gibson	103
Gilbertson	8
Gillespie	7
Gillies	9
Gilmour	6
Glen	13
Goar	20
Goodfellow	4
Goodsir	7
Gordon	8
Gorie	11
Gorn	41
Gorrie	4
Goudie	4
Gould	4
Gow	13
Graham	8
Grant	24
Gray	148
Green	19
Greenway	1
Greig	13
Greive	4
Grey	11
Grieve	71
Griffiths	1
Groat	158
Groundwater	94
Gruer	7
Gullion	27
Gunn	115
Gutcher	15
Guthrie	76
Hackland	5
Halcro	36
Halcrow	17
Haley	1
Hamilton	6
Harcus	323
Harper	31
Harray	15
Harrison	5
Harrold	66
Harvey	208
Hattie	1
Hay	110
Haydon	3
Hebden	7
Heddle	145
Heggie	4
Henderson	31
Hendrie	2
Hendry	1
Henry	5
Hepburn	71
Hercus	6
Herdman	17
Herdsman	1
Hewison	31
Higgings	1
Hill	2
Hodson	1
Holland	7
Horn	3
Horne	36
Horrie	14
Horwood	4
Hossack	10
Hourie	57
Hourston	191
Howman	3
Hudson	1
Hughson	11
Hume	34
Humphrey	2
Hunter	28
Hutcheon	4
Hutcheson	1
Hutchison	76
Ingram	1
Inkster	121
Ireland	4
Ironside	10
Irvine	186
Isbister	187
Jamieson	7
Jarvie	8
Jeffery	4
Jeffrey	3
Johnson	1
Johnston	411
Johnstone	77
Jolly	10
Jones	6
Keetley	3
Keillor	1
Keith	2
Kelday	32
Keldey	1
Keldie	10
Keldy	1
Kellit	1
Kellock	1
Kemp	41
Kennedy	37
Kent	58
Kerr	8
Kerrigan	4
Kilpatrick	1
King	45
Kirkness	210
Kirkpatrick	48
Knarston	5
Knight	28
Korner	2
Laird	130
Lamb	2
Lamont	4
Lang	4
Langskail	12
Langskaill	4
Langskill	2
Lanskail	7
Lanskaill	1
Laughton	159
Lavarty	1
Laverty	8
Lawrence	12
Lawrie	2
Learmonth	102
Leask	138
Leavach	1
Lee	10
Leitch	8
Leith	39
Lendrum	1
Lennie	109
Leonard	40
Leslie	187
Liddell	5
Liddle	36
Lilburn	4
Linay	2
Lindores	1
Linklater	328
Linney	1
Lithgo	1
Logie	100
Longbottom	1
Loutit	7
Louttit	100
Lovejoy	5
Lovell	1
Low	20
Lowe	4
Lucttini	1
Luke	3
Lund	1
Lyall	5
Lyell	3
Lynch	2
Lyon	18
Macadie	10
Macallum	1
Macaskell	1
MacBeath	9
MacCullie	8
Macdonald	16
MacDougall	1
MacFadyen	2
MacGilvary	2
MacGilvery	2
MacGregor	9
Mackay	146
MacKenzie	31
Mackie	5
MacKinson	8
Mackintosh	4
MacLachlan	2
Maclaren	3
MacLean	2
MacLennan	8
MacLeod	3
MacMannon	1
MacMillan	1
MacNeil	4
MacPherson	10
Macrae	2
Madden	1
Mail	1
Mainland	132
Mair	5
Maitland	1
Malcolm	1
Malcolmson	16
Manson	158
Markham	1
Marlin	1
Marshall	1
Martin	3
Martins	4
Marwick	211
Mason	18
Masson	1
Matches	103
Matheson	10
Mathieson	35
Mathison	9
Maxwell	47
May	2
McAdie	16
McAllister	2
McBeath	8
McCallum	15
McConachie	1
McDonald	41
McEachern	1
McEwen	5
McGaw	7
McGhee	2
McGhie	1
McGie	3
McGill	3
McGilvary	8
McGlashan	2
McGregor	18
McHarrie	2
McHollan	4
McIntosh	8
McIvor	8
McKay	57
McKellar	1
McKenzie	11
McKinlay	6
McKinley	1
McKinnon	3
McKnight	4
McLachlan	10
McLaren	3
McLean	9
McLellan	1
McLeman	4
McLenan	1
McLennan	7
McLeod	10
McLod	1
McMillan	2
McNaught	1
McNeil	3
McPhee	7
McPherson	3
McQueen	1
McSporran	1
McVay	1
McVicar	1
Meadows	15
Meason	25
Meek	1
Meikle	2
Meil	44
Meldrum	4
Melville	17
Menzies	2
Mercer	4
Merriman	70
Millan	9
Millar	43
Miller	335
Mills	1
Milne	42
Mirriman	1
Mitchell	46
Moar	189
Mollison	1
Moncrieff	1
Moncur	4
Montgomery	4
Moodie	138
Mooney	10
Moore	9
Morgan	10
Morris	5
Morrison	35
Morwick	3
Moss	14
Mouat	1
Mowat	330
Mowatt	10
Muir	465
Muirden	14
Munro	25
Murison	5
Murray	21
Murrell	3
Mutch	1
Myles	1
Neil	1
Newland	17
Newlands	44
Nicholls	1
Nicholson	25
Nicol	1
Nicolson	102
Noble	1
Norn	14
Norquay	173
Norquoy	84
O'Connor	1
O'Donnell	6
O'Hare	6
Oag	9
Oddie	35
Offard	2
Ogilvie	1
Oliver	2
Omand	93
Omond	23
Osborne	19
Osbourn	1
Ovens	1
Paplay	13
Papley	11
Park	57
Paterson	84
Paul	6
Pavie	1
Paxton	2
Peace	183
Pearson	22
Peavie	2
Peebles	1
Peel	2
Perie	1
Peterson	8
Petrie	91
Phair	1
Philips	1
Phillips	28
Pirie	28
Plank	2
Poke	8
Pole	1
Pollexsen	1
Porteous	9
Pottinger	93
Pratt	42
Pringle	7
Quine	6
Rae	8
Ramsay	2
Ranken	1
Redfearn	3
Redland	7
Redmond	1
Reekie	1
Reid	238
Rendall	479
Renton	1
Rhuid	1
Rich	4
Richardson	1
Richie	1
Richmond	7
Ridland	2
Ried ?	1
Riley	1
Ritch	161
Ritchie	27
Roarie	6
Roary	2
Robb	26
Robertson	454
Robson	37
Rorie	9
Rose	3
Rosey	2
Rosie	142
Ross	76
Rossie	8
Rousay	49
Rowland	14
Roxburgh	1
Roy	2
Runciman	9
Russel	2
Russell	63
Russland	1
Rust	2
Rutherford	2
Ryrie	8
S---wright	3
Sabaston	2
Sabiston	149
Sanderson	6
Sandison	62
Sangster	12
Saunders	2
Sawyer	7
Scarth	36
Schollay	19
Schollie	18
Sclater	60
Scobbie	1
Scollay	16
Scollie	2
Scotland	1
Scott	395
Seater	12
Seator	10
Seatter	168
Sharp	3
Shaw	8
Shearer	357
Shedding	2
Sheridan	2
Sherman	3
Sheuan	3
Shoard	6
Short	2
Shurie	8
Shurrie	1
Simeson	3
Simieson	1
Simison	18
Simmons	2
Simpson	128
Sinclair	1003
Skae	3
Skea	111
Skene	4
Skethaway	11
Skinner	22
Slater	96
Smart	3
Smith	323
Snell	1
Soanes	8
Somerville	1
Sommerville	6
Soutar	3
Spark	8
Spence	493
Stalker	2
Stanger	89
Statham	4
Stephen	18
Steven	10
Stevenson	185
Stewart	48
Stickler	12
Still	3
Stockan	42
Stott	2
Stout	165
Stove	31
Strachen	1
Struthers	4
Stuart	1
Sturrock	1
Sutherland	425
Suttie	7
Swan	1
Swannay	1
Swanney	179
Swannie	36
Swanny	1
Swanson	44
Tait	184
Taylor	312
Terras	5
Thom	8
Thomison	10
Thompson	30
Thomson	419
Tinch	18
Tod	1
Tolmie	2
Tomison	45
Towers	52
Towrie	8
Traill	11
Tripney	3
Troup	3
Trumbland	4
Try	1
Tulloch	410
Tullock	29
Turface	1
Turfeus	11
Turfus	47
Turnbull	1
Turner	2
Twatt	55
Tyrie	6
Velzian	18
Voy	35
Wagrall	1
Walace	1
Walker	6
Wallace	97
Walls	130
Walsh	2
Walter	12
Ward	16
Wards	103
Wares	14
Warren	1
Waterer	2
Waters	4
Watson	15
Watt	32
Watters	16
Watts	2
Watty	3
Webster	9
Wellwood	1
Westness	4
Westwood	1
White	17
Whitelaw	4
Whitlaw	6
Whyte	6
Wick	22
Will	2
Willets	6
Williams	2
Williamson	69
Willitts	3
Wilson	255
Windwick	12
Wingate	3
Winton	6
Wintrip	3
Wishart	75
Wood	114
Wooldrage	41
Wooldridge	1
Woolrige	2
Work	211
Wotherspoon	1
Wright	26
Wylie	153
Wyllie	1
Yair	2
Yorston	73
Young	28
Younger	3
Yule	8
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