Pearse family name history and map
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Pearse in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 69 people named Pearse in Ireland; roughly one in every 64,000 people carried the name. There were noticeably more women than men recorded: 38 women to 30 men. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Pearse in Ireland
Dublin was Pearse country: 30.4% of them (21 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Longford (15), Clare (9), Cork (6) and Down (6).
Pearse average age in 1911
The average Pearse in 1911 was 27.2 years old, 25.3 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.
Pearse literacy in 1911
Of the Pearses whose literacy was recorded, 79% could both read and write, 4.8% could read but not write, and 16.1% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 83.3% reading and writing against 73.1% 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.
Pearse common first names
The most common male names were Fredrick (2), Patrick, Thomas, William and A. For women it was Mary (4), followed by Agnes, Charlotte, Florence and Mary Anne.
Pearse occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Pearse's census form was "Scholar"; 18.8% (13) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were clerk / office worker (4.3%), shopkeeper / shop assistant / dealer (4.3%), textile worker (4.3%) and domestic servant (2.9%). Grouped by sector, domestic service accounted for 7.2% of all Pearses, followed by professional, retail & commerce and agriculture.
What religion is Pearse?
Most Pearses, 55.1%, were Roman Catholic. The remainder were mostly Anglican (42%) and Methodist (1.4%).
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Pearse statistics (1911)
Number: 69
Rank: 4,801
Average Age: 27
Pearse in the USA (2020)
Number: 1,225
Rank: 21,686
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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