Shinners family name history
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Shinners in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 124 people named Shinners in Ireland; roughly one in every 35,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 62 men and 62 women.
Counties with Shinners in Ireland
Tipperary was Shinners country: 40.3% of them (50 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Limerick (42), Clare (20), Galway (8) and Dublin (1).
Shinners average age in 1911
The average Shinners in 1911 was 28.0 years old, 26.5 for men and 29.5 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.
Shinners literacy in 1911
Of the Shinnerses whose literacy was recorded, 80.3% could both read and write, 5.1% could read but not write, and 14.5% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 83.3% reading and writing against 77.2% 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.
Shinners common first names
The most common male names were John (13), Patrick, Michael, Richard and Luke. For women it was Mary (12), followed by Bridget, Ellen, Margaret and Margret.
Shinners occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Shinners's census form was "Scholar"; 23.4% (29) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were general labourer (7.3%), domestic servant (5.6%), farmer (5.6%) and other maker / factory worker (5.6%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 10.5% of all Shinnerses, followed by domestic service, general labourers and manufacturing & trades.
What religion is Shinners?
Shinnerses were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, 96.8% of them.
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Shinners statistics (1911)
Number: 124
Rank: 3,386
Average Age: 28
Shinnersin the USA (2020)
Number: 515
Rank: 44,823
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
