Alice Gale was born about 1529, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. She married William Raper in 1548, in Baldersby, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 2 January 1596, at the age of 68.
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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.
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