Peggs family name history and map
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Peggs in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 50 people named Peggs in Ireland; roughly one in every 88,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 24 men and 25 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Peggs in Ireland
The Peggses were heavily concentrated in Dublin, home to 74% of them (37 people). Next came Cork (10), Clare (2) and Kildare (1).
Peggs average age in 1911
The average Peggs in 1911 was 24.7 years old, 24.7 for men and 24.6 for women; noticeably 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.
Peggs literacy in 1911
Of the Peggses whose literacy was recorded, 60.4% could both read and write, 8.3% could read but not write, and 31.2% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 64% reading and writing against 56.5% 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.
Peggs common first names
The most common male names were John (4), Thomas, William, Edward and Michael. For women it was Annie (2), followed by Elizabeth, Kathern, Mary and Alias.
Peggs occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Peggs's census form was "Scholar"; 24% (12) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were general labourer (8%), domestic servant (6%), retired / pensioner (6%) and farm labourer (4%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 8% of all Peggses, followed by domestic service, general labourers and retired & pensioners.
What religion is Peggs?
Peggses were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, 96% of them.
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Peggs statistics (1911)
Number: 50
Rank: 5,790
Average Age: 25
Peggs in the USA (2020)
Number: 501
Rank: 45,922
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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