Greenlee family name history
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Greenlee in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 111 people named Greenlee in Ireland; roughly one in every 40,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 53 men and 58 women.
Counties with Greenlee in Ireland
Armagh was Greenlee country: 44.1% of them (49 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Monaghan (23), Antrim (18), Down (18) and Dublin (3).
Greenlee average age in 1911
The average Greenlee in 1911 was 23.5 years old, 22.3 for men and 24.6 for women; noticeably 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.
Greenlee literacy in 1911
Of the Greenlees whose literacy was recorded, 79% could both read and write, 3.8% could read but not write, and 17.1% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 85.7% reading and writing against 73.2% 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.
Greenlee common first names
The most common male names were John (9), William, James, Samuel and Joseph. For women it was Annie (4), followed by Elizabeth, Mary, Martha and Edith.
Greenlee occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Greenlee's census form was "Scholar"; 26.1% (29) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (9%), textile worker (9%), general labourer (3.6%) and farm labourer (2.7%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 11.7% of all Greenlees, followed by textiles & clothing, general labourers and metal & engineering.
What religion is Greenlee?
Most Greenlees, 55.9%, were Anglican. The remainder were mostly Presbyterian (43.2%) and Methodist (0.9%).
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Greenlee statistics (1911)
111 in Ireland
3,615 most common surname in Ireland
24 average age
Greenleein the USA (2020)
8,306 in USA (2020)
4,141 rank in USA (2020)
