Moorehead family name history and map
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Moorehead in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 204 people named Moorehead in Ireland; roughly one in every 22,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 97 men and 107 women.
Counties with Moorehead in Ireland
Antrim was Moorehead country: 26% of them (53 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Down (43), Monaghan (30), Derry (22) and Armagh (17).
Moorehead average age in 1911
The average Moorehead in 1911 was 31.8 years old, 29.3 for men and 34.1 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.
Moorehead literacy in 1911
Of the Mooreheads whose literacy was recorded, 80.7% could both read and write, 5% could read but not write, and 14.4% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 85.6% reading and writing against 76.2% 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.
Moorehead common first names
The most common male names were James (9), William, John, Joseph and Robert. For women it was Sarah (7), followed by Elizabeth, Margaret, Lizzie and Annie.
Moorehead occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Moorehead's census form was "Scholar"; 18.6% (38) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (12.7%), textile worker (6.4%), farm labourer (2.9%) and general labourer (2.5%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 16.2% of all Mooreheads, followed by textiles & clothing, metal & engineering and domestic service.
What religion is Moorehead?
Most Mooreheads, 56.4%, were Presbyterian. The remainder were mostly Anglican (27.5%), Roman Catholic (9.3%), Methodist (3.9%) and Plymouth Brethren (2.5%).
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Moorehead statistics (1911)
Number: 204
Rank: 2,481
Average Age: 32
Mooreheadin the USA (2020)
Number: 4,478
Rank: 7,195
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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