When Isabella Gale was born about 1524, her father, Lord John George Gale, Mayor of York, Treasurer of the King's Mint, was 31 and her mother, Lady Mary DeKindell, was 26. She married Ralph Hall about 1552, in Grange, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. She died in 1573, at the age of 50.
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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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