Gates family name history
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Gates in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 110 people named Gates in Ireland; roughly one in every 40,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 57 men and 53 women.
Counties with Gates in Ireland
Tyrone was Gates country: 37.3% of them (41 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Armagh (33), Antrim (19), Cork (8) and Down (4).
Gates average age in 1911
The average Gates in 1911 was 27.3 years old, 26.7 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.
Gates literacy in 1911
Of the Gateses whose literacy was recorded, 63.6% could both read and write, 7.3% could read but not write, and 29.1% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 67.9% reading and writing against 59.6% 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.
Gates common first names
The most common male names were Thomas (9), John, James, Robert and Samuel. For women it was Margaret (5), followed by Annie, Elizabeth, Mary Ann and Jane.
Gates occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Gates's census form was "Scholar"; 19.1% (21) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were textile worker (11.8%), farmer (9.1%), general labourer (9.1%) and shoemaker (3.6%). Grouped by sector, textiles & clothing accounted for 15.5% of all Gateses, followed by agriculture, general labourers and domestic service.
What religion is Gates?
Gateses were predominantly Anglican (83.6%). The remainder were mostly Presbyterian (8.2%), Roman Catholic (4.5%) and Methodist (3.6%).
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Gates statistics (1911)
110 in Ireland
3,640 most common surname in Ireland
27 average age
Gatesin the USA (2020)
51,298 in USA (2020)
648 rank in USA (2020)
