When Joseph Hale was born in 1771, in Augusta, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Captain Thomas Hale, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Armstrong, was 28. He married Sally Turnbull on 21 July 1797, in Rocky Mount, Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 29 October 1811, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, at the age of 40.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). 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. See Haugh . 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 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. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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