Corboy family name history and map
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Corboy in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 103 people named Corboy in Ireland; roughly one in every 43,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 52 men and 50 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Corboy in Ireland
Limerick was Corboy country: 42.7% of them (44 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Tipperary (41), Offaly (6), Waterford (6) and Dublin (2).
Corboy average age in 1911
The average Corboy in 1911 was 33.4 years old, 33.4 for men and 33.4 for women; noticeably 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.
Corboy literacy in 1911
Of the Corboys whose literacy was recorded, 85.3% could both read and write, 5.3% could read but not write, and 9.5% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 87.2% reading and writing against 83% 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.
Corboy common first names
The most common male names were John (10), James, Michael, Thomas and Denis. For women it was Mary (8), followed by Margaret, Anne, Bridget and Annie.
Corboy occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Corboy's census form was "Scholar"; 17.5% (18) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (10.7%), farm labourer (7.8%), general labourer (4.9%) and domestic servant (3.9%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 19.4% of all Corboys, followed by domestic service, general labourers and retail & commerce.
What religion is Corboy?
Corboys were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, 100% of them.
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Corboy statistics (1911)
Number: 103
Rank: 3,783
Average Age: 33
Corboy in the USA (2020)
Number: 218
Rank: 90,848
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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