Leach family name history and map
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Leach in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 58 people named Leach in Ireland; roughly one in every 76,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 29 men and 29 women.
Counties with Leach in Ireland
Dublin was Leach country: 32.8% of them (19 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Cork (7), Derry (6), Antrim (5) and Down (5).
Leach average age in 1911
The average Leach in 1911 was 28.4 years old, 25.8 for men and 31.0 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.
Leach literacy in 1911
Of the Leaches whose literacy was recorded, 84.5% could both read and write, 0% could read but not write, and 15.5% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 86.2% reading and writing against 82.8% 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.
Leach common first names
The most common male names were John (3), Arthur, Patrick Jos, Adam and Arnold. For women it was Mary (4), followed by Eliza, Martha, Beatrice and Bessey.
Leach occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Leach's census form was "Scholar"; 13.8% (8) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were clerk / office worker (6.9%), domestic servant (5.2%), metal worker / engineer (5.2%) and cook (3.4%). Grouped by sector, domestic service accounted for 10.3% of all Leaches, followed by agriculture, clerical & administration and metal & engineering.
What religion is Leach?
Most Leaches, 58.6%, were Anglican. The remainder were mostly Roman Catholic (24.1%), Presbyterian (13.8%) and Methodist (3.4%).
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Leach statistics (1911)
Number: 58
Rank: 5,290
Average Age: 28
Leach in the USA (2020)
Number: 42,194
Rank: 797
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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