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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,486,291 Historical Documents with Hale on Ancestry
- 1,075,746 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 619,011 Census and Voter Lists
- 116,517 Military Records
- 44,518 Immigration Records
- 1,630,499 Member Trees
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Number of Hale families
 913 - 1,823  305 - 912 |
 1 - 304  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hale families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hale census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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