Crooks family name history and map
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Crooks in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 545 people named Crooks in Ireland; roughly one in every 8,100 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 254 men and 291 women.
Counties with Crooks in Ireland
Antrim was Crooks country: 34.7% of them (189 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Derry (130), Down (110), Tyrone (85) and Dublin (9).
Crooks average age in 1911
The average Crooks in 1911 was 27.0 years old, 24.8 for men and 29.0 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.
Crooks literacy in 1911
Of the Crookses whose literacy was recorded, 80.5% could both read and write, 4.1% could read but not write, and 15.4% 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.
Crooks common first names
The most common male names were James (29), Thomas, William, John and Samuel. For women it was Mary (22), followed by Elizabeth, Margaret, Maggie and Jane.
Crooks occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Crooks's census form was "Scholar"; 20.6% (112) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (7.9%), textile worker (7%), farm labourer (4.6%) and general labourer (3.1%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 13% of all Crookses, followed by textiles & clothing, domestic service and general labourers.
What religion is Crooks?
Most Crookses, 59.4%, were Presbyterian. The remainder were mostly Anglican (29.5%), Roman Catholic (3.9%), Methodist (2.4%) and Non-Conformist (1.8%).
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Crooks statistics (1911)
Number: 545
Rank: 1,257
Average Age: 27
Crooksin the USA (2020)
Number: 10,198
Rank: 3,423
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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