Sparks family name history
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Sparks in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 143 people named Sparks in Ireland; roughly one in every 31,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 67 men and 75 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Sparks in Ireland
Dublin was Sparks country: 37.1% of them (53 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Armagh (31), Antrim (15), Cork (10) and Westmeath (9).
Sparks average age in 1911
The average Sparks in 1911 was 28.3 years old, 28.7 for men and 28.0 for women; a touch 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.
Sparks literacy in 1911
Of the Sparkses whose literacy was recorded, 83% could both read and write, 3.5% could read but not write, and 13.5% could do neither. The figures were much the same for men and women. 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.
Sparks common first names
The most common male names were John (9), William, Thomas, George and James. For women it was Jane (7), followed by Mary, Sarah, Margaret and Annie.
Sparks occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Sparks's census form was "Scholar"; 22.4% (32) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were general labourer (7%), no occupation / dependent (4.2%), printer (4.2%) and farmer (3.5%). Grouped by sector, textiles & clothing accounted for 9.1% of all Sparkses, followed by general labourers, agriculture and manufacturing & trades.
What religion is Sparks?
The largest religious group among Sparkses was Anglican, at 41.3%. The remainder were mostly Roman Catholic (30.1%), Presbyterian (21%), Non-Conformist (3.5%) and Baptist (2.1%).
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Sparks statistics (1911)
Number: 143
Rank: 3,093
Average Age: 28
Sparksin the USA (2020)
Number: 61,073
Rank: 544
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
