When Samuel Gale was born on 6 December 1748, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Gale, was 42 and his mother, Rebecca Clason, was 38. He married Lydia Skinner about 1770, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in 1826, in Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States, at the age of 78.
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English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French gal, gale, galle ‘cock, cockerel’.
English: habitational name from a minor place called with either Middle English gale, gagel (Old English gagel) ‘bog myrtle’, or with Middle English gale ‘fishery paying dues to the lord’ (Old English gafol ‘tax’?) such as Gale in Bickington (Devon) and The Gale, the name of a fishery in Ham and Stone (Gloucestershire).
English: topographic name from Middle English gale, gail (Old Norse geil) ‘ravine, narrow lane’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Gale in Littleborough, Rochdale (Lancashire), or possibly High Gale in Tatham or Tunstall (Lancashire). With the sense ‘narrow lane’ it is found in several street names in medieval York.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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