Sherry family name history and map
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Sherry in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 989 people named Sherry in Ireland; roughly one in every 4,400 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 494 men and 493 women. (A small number, 2, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Sherry in Ireland
Monaghan was Sherry country: 31.1% of them (308 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Dublin (189), Meath (118), Tyrone (67) and Armagh (61).
Sherry average age in 1911
The average Sherry in 1911 was 32.1 years old, 32.1 for men and 32.1 for women; slightly older than the national averages of 29.6 for men and 30.5 for women. That low figure reflects just how many children there were in Edwardian Ireland, along with high infant mortality and the limits of public health at the time. For comparison, average life expectancy in Ireland today is around 83.
Sherry literacy in 1911
Of the Sherrys whose literacy was recorded, 76.3% could both read and write, 5.4% could read but not write, and 18.3% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 77.4% reading and writing against 75.4% of men. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.
Sherry common first names
The most common male names were Patrick (84), John, James, William and Peter. For women it was Mary (81), followed by Bridget, Margaret, Catherine and Ellen.
Sherry occupations in 1911
The most common occupation among Sherrys was farmer, 16.6% of them (164 people). Next came scholar / student (16.3%), general labourer (4.7%), farm labourer (3.8%) and domestic servant (3.3%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 21.5% of all Sherrys, followed by domestic service, textiles & clothing and general labourers.
What religion is Sherry?
Sherrys were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, 94.5% of them. The remainder were mostly Anglican (2.2%), Congregationalist (1.2%), Methodist (1.1%) and Presbyterian (0.1%).
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Sherry statistics (1911)
Number: 989
Rank: 798
Average Age: 32
Sherry in the USA (2020)
Number: 6,855
Rank: 4,964
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.