Mawhinney family name history and map
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Mawhinney in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 824 people named Mawhinney in Ireland; roughly one in every 5,300 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 394 men and 430 women.
Counties with Mawhinney in Ireland
Antrim was Mawhinney country: 43% of them (354 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Down (336), Derry (80), Armagh (45) and Tyrone (8).
Mawhinney average age in 1911
The average Mawhinney in 1911 was 27.0 years old, 25.2 for men and 28.7 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.
Mawhinney literacy in 1911
Of the Mawhinneys whose literacy was recorded, 78.9% could both read and write, 4.9% could read but not write, and 16.2% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 80.1% reading and writing against 77.5% 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.
Mawhinney common first names
The most common male names were James (56), John, William, Robert and Samuel. For women it was Sarah (30), followed by Mary, Jane, Agnes and Annie.
Mawhinney occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Mawhinney's census form was "Scholar"; 21.6% (178) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (8.4%), textile worker (5.3%), general labourer (3%) and seamstress (2.8%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 11.4% of all Mawhinneys, followed by textiles & clothing, building & construction and general labourers.
What religion is Mawhinney?
Most Mawhinneys, 62.1%, were Presbyterian. The remainder were mostly Anglican (24.3%), Methodist (3.3%), Congregationalist (2.1%) and Plymouth Brethren (1.9%).
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Mawhinney statistics (1911)
Number: 824
Rank: 920
Average Age: 27
Mawhinney in the USA (2020)
Number: 969
Rank: 26,524
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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