Sterritt family name history
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Sterritt in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 159 people named Sterritt in Ireland; roughly one in every 28,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 77 men and 81 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Sterritt in Ireland
Donegal was Sterritt country: 37.1% of them (59 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Down (42), Armagh (29), Derry (12) and Antrim (8).
Sterritt average age in 1911
The average Sterritt in 1911 was 26.5 years old, 26.5 for men and 26.4 for women; noticeably younger 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.
Sterritt literacy in 1911
Of the Sterritts whose literacy was recorded, 89.1% could both read and write, 3.8% could read but not write, and 7.1% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 91.4% reading and writing against 86.7% 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.
Sterritt common first names
The most common male names were Robert (8), David, George, James and Samuel. For women it was Margaret (5), followed by Jane, Sarah, Annie and Ruth.
Sterritt occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Sterritt's census form was "Scholar"; 32.1% (51) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (16.4%), seamstress (3.1%), shopkeeper / shop assistant / dealer (2.5%) and textile worker (2.5%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 17.6% of all Sterritts, followed by textiles & clothing, retail & commerce and metal & engineering.
What religion is Sterritt?
Sterritts were predominantly Presbyterian (72.3%). The remainder were mostly Anglican (26.4%) and Roman Catholic (0.6%).
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Sterritt statistics (1911)
Number: 159
Rank: 2,897
Average Age: 27
Sterrittin the USA (2020)
Number: 323
Rank: 66,171
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
