Glanville family name history and map
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Glanville in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 89 people named Glanville in Ireland; roughly one in every 49,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 45 men and 44 women.
Counties with Glanville in Ireland
Waterford was Glanville country: 25.8% of them (23 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Cork (21), Dublin (19), Armagh (8) and Down (8).
Glanville average age in 1911
The average Glanville in 1911 was 23.4 years old, 21.1 for men and 25.7 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.
Glanville literacy in 1911
Of the Glanvilles whose literacy was recorded, 80.7% could both read and write, 1.1% could read but not write, and 18.2% 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.
Glanville common first names
The most common male names were William (6), John, James, Thomas and Michael. For women it was Margaret (4), followed by Catherine, Anne, Annie and Johanna.
Glanville occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Glanville's census form was "Scholar"; 32.6% (29) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were domestic servant (3.4%), farmer (3.4%), porter / messenger (3.4%) and retired / pensioner (2.2%). Grouped by sector, transport accounted for 5.6% of all Glanvilles, followed by domestic service, agriculture and professional.
What religion is Glanville?
Most Glanvilles, 67.4%, were Roman Catholic. The remainder were mostly Methodist (21.3%) and Anglican (11.2%).
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Glanville statistics (1911)
Number: 89
Rank: 4,150
Average Age: 23
Glanville in the USA (2020)
Number: 1,242
Rank: 21,445
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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