When Doris Alice Gale was born in 1895, in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Charles Augustus Gale, was 28 and her mother, Susan Hazelwood, was 28. She married Stephen Ernest Smith in 1915, in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in 1963, in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 68, and was buried in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia.
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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