Gilmour family name history and map
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Gilmour in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 673 people named Gilmour in Ireland; roughly one in every 6,500 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 324 men and 348 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Gilmour in Ireland
Antrim was Gilmour country: 40.4% of them (272 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Derry (170), Tyrone (55), Down (54) and Longford (19).
Gilmour average age in 1911
The average Gilmour in 1911 was 31.5 years old, 30.8 for men and 32.2 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.
Gilmour literacy in 1911
Of the Gilmours whose literacy was recorded, 77.2% could both read and write, 5.6% could read but not write, and 17.2% 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.
Gilmour common first names
The most common male names were John (40), William, James, Robert and Samuel. For women it was Mary (26), followed by Elizabeth, Annie, Lizzie and Margaret.
Gilmour occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Gilmour's census form was "Scholar"; 19.5% (131) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (12%), textile worker (4.6%), general labourer (4.5%) and farm labourer (4.3%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 16.5% of all Gilmours, followed by textiles & clothing, domestic service and general labourers.
What religion is Gilmour?
Most Gilmours, 54.5%, were Presbyterian. The remainder were mostly Anglican (24.1%), Roman Catholic (15.6%), Moravian (2.8%) and Methodist (1.5%).
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Gilmour statistics (1911)
Number: 673
Rank: 1,057
Average Age: 32
Gilmourin the USA (2020)
Number: 2,640
Rank: 11,409
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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