When John Gale was born on 9 October 1732, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Gale, was 25 and his mother, Rebecca Clason, was 22. He married Sarah Waterbury on 21 September 1752, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died in July 1765, in his hometown, at the age of 32, and was buried in At Sea.
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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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