Hale Family History
Hale Name Meaning
English (also well established in South Wales): topographic
name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from Old English and
Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook’,
‘hollow’. In northern England the word often has a specialized
meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a
river, typically one deposited in a bend. In southeastern England it
often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the
surname may be a habitational name from any of the several places in
England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would
originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the
hale or at the hale.English:
from a Middle English personal name derived from either of two Old
English bynames, Hæle ‘hero’ or Hægel, which is
probably akin to Germanic Hagano ‘hawthorn’ (see Hain
2).Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile
(see McHale).Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant
spelling of Halle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hale
Name Distribution of Hale Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hale families
 913 - 1,823  305 - 912 |
 1 - 304  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hale families
|
16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hale census records
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Hale Family Origin
Hale Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hale Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hale Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hale census records
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Military Service by Hale
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