When Theodore A Gale was born on 2 October 1857, in Lee Center, Lee, Illinois, United States, his father, John Henry Gale, was 63 and his mother, Esther Minna Gould, was 43. He married Harriet Amelia Shaw on 10 October 1876, in Lee, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Gilman, Marshall, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Eisenstein, Price, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 29 December 1933, in Union Township, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Liscomb, Marshall, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1865: Marshall, Iowa, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1879: Price, Wisconsin, United States
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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