Moss family name history and map
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Moss in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 376 people named Moss in Ireland; roughly one in every 12,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 189 men and 186 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Moss in Ireland
Tyrone was Moss country: 33.2% of them (125 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Dublin (55), Antrim (38), Down (27) and Meath (26).
Moss average age in 1911
The average Moss in 1911 was 27.9 years old, 26.9 for men and 29.0 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.
Moss literacy in 1911
Of the Mosses whose literacy was recorded, 76.2% could both read and write, 5% could read but not write, and 18.8% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 77.7% reading and writing against 74.9% 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.
Moss common first names
The most common male names were John (23), Patrick, James, Edward and William. For women it was Mary (21), followed by Bridget, Margaret, Catherine and Anne.
Moss occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Moss's census form was "Scholar"; 22.1% (83) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (12.2%), general labourer (3.5%), seamstress (3.5%) and domestic servant (3.2%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 14.9% of all Mosses, followed by textiles & clothing, domestic service and general labourers.
What religion is Moss?
Mosses were predominantly Roman Catholic (74.5%). The remainder were mostly Anglican (16.2%), Presbyterian (7.7%), Jewish (0.5%) and Congregationalist (0.3%).
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Moss statistics (1911)
Number: 376
Rank: 1,644
Average Age: 28
Mossin the USA (2020)
Number: 74,470
Rank: 436
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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