Gale Family History
Gale Name Meaning
English: nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from
Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English
gal ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in
Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English: from a Germanic personal name introduced into England
from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally
distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form
of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’,
‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the
element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English: metonymic
occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived
near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern
French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive
of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese: from
galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic
occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian:
from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus),
formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gale
Name Distribution of Gale Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gale families
 781 - 1,560  261 - 780 |
 1 - 260  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gale families
|
14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gale Family Origin
Gale Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gale Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gale Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Gale
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