The Main Christian Denominations in Ireland

BarraOG

Hi,

I wish to list on my website each surname in the 1901/1911 censuses plus the break down for this surname based on religion. For example:

Woulfe
1901
Catholic, 100.0%
1911
Catholic, 99.4475138121547%

Wray
1901
Presbyterian, 51.474926253687315%, Anglican, 35.693215339233035%, Catholic, 6.784660766961652%
1911
Presbyterian, 45.62146892655367%, Anglican, 36.29943502824859%, Catholic, 11.299435028248588%, Methodist, 3.531073446327684%

Wright
1901
Anglican, 38.58902575587906%, Presbyterian, 29.27211646136618%, Catholic, 20.716685330347147%, Methodist, 3.986562150055991%
1911
Anglican, 40.07532122286221%, Presbyterian, 29.441736818786%, Catholic, 20.22596366858662%, Methodist, 3.522374833850243%

So this is the list of religions that I define for these purposes:

Anglican
Baptist
Brethren
Catholic
Christian
Christian Brethren
Church of Christ
Congregationalist
Independent
Jewish
Methodist
Moravian
None / Not Given
Original Secession
Presbyterian
Unitarian
Quaker

Is this a reasonable list and are any of these religions which are pretty much the same thing? Am I missing any obvious ones? As you can see Jewish is included as it is common among certain surnames.

The tricky thing for me is that there are so many ways of defining the same religion and even more ways of spelling it. I have therefore had to map, for example, "R C" to Catholic. Below are the mappings I am using. The mappings for the main religions are not shown since they are huge? Do the mappings for the smaller religions seem correct in your opinion?

Thanks,
Barry

Catholic
Roman Catholic

Anglican
Church of England, Irish Church, Church of Ireland, Episcopalians

Presbyterian
Church of Scotland

Methodist
Wesleyan

Baptist
Babtist

Brethren
Bretheren, Brethren

Christian
Christain Body, Christian

Christian Brethren
Christian Brethern, Christian Brethren

Church of Christ
Protestant Church of Christ, Church of Christ

Congregationalist
Congregationalist, Congergationlist, Congregationalists, Congretional, Congregational

Independent
Independent

Jewish
Jews, Jew Synagogue, Jewish Synog, Jewish, Jeweses, Hebrew Jewish, Jews Religen, Jewish Synagogue, Israelite, Jewes, Jewe, Orthodox Israelite, Hebrew, Jewess, Jewish Religion, Hebrew Jew, Jew, Jewish Synoguge

Moravian
Moravian Church, Protestant Moravian, Moravian, Protestant Moravian Church

None / Not Given
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Original Secession
Original Secession

Quaker
Society of Friends, A Member of the Society of Friends, Quakeress, Generally atland Quaker Meeting, Member Society of Friends, Religious Society of Friends, Quaker, Member of the Society of Friends, Member of Religions Society of Friends, Member of Society of Friends, Society of Friendss, Connected with Society of Friends, Members Society of Friends, Members of Society of Friends, Quakers

Unitarian
Unitarian Non Subscribing Presbyterian, Uniterian, Unitarian Ch, Prodestant Unitarian, Unitarian, Non Subscribing Unitarian, Unitarians, Unitarian C, Wnitarian, Unitarian Church, Unitarian Moneyrea Church, Unitarian Cr

Gravelly

Interesting website. You've missed some names though

BarraOG

Gravelly wrote: »

Interesting website. You've missed some names though

Thanks! The top thousand are there so far. Pm me and I can add what youre missing.

pleas advice

you could round the percentages to four or five significant figures?