Gurry family name history and map
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Gurry in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 85 people named Gurry in Ireland; roughly one in every 52,000 people carried the name. There were noticeably more men than women recorded: 47 men to 37 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Gurry in Ireland
Kildare was Gurry country: 32.9% of them (28 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Roscommon (16), Dublin (12), Laois (7) and Offaly (7).
Gurry average age in 1911
The average Gurry in 1911 was 32.6 years old, 31.4 for men and 33.6 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.
Gurry literacy in 1911
Of the Gurrys whose literacy was recorded, 74.4% could both read and write, 3.8% could read but not write, and 21.8% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 75.6% reading and writing against 71.9% of 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.
Gurry common first names
The most common male names were Michael (7), Patrick, James, Thomas and John; the same five names that topped the list nationally. For women it was Mary (7), followed by Anne, Lizzie, Jane and Margaret.
Gurry occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Gurry's census form was "Scholar"; 12.9% (11) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (11.8%), farm labourer (5.9%), general labourer (5.9%) and domestic servant (4.7%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 18.8% of all Gurrys, followed by domestic service, general labourers and textiles & clothing.
What religion is Gurry?
Gurrys were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, 94.1% of them.
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Gurry statistics (1911)
Number: 85
Rank: 4,270
Average Age: 33
Gurry in the USA (2020)
Number: 374
Rank: 58,578
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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