Of the McGonigals whose literacy was recorded, 66.1% could both read and write, 7.6% could read but not write, and 26.3% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 74.4% reading and writing against 59.1% 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.