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  • Gale (deceased)
  • Abell Gale (1628 - 1721)
    Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Gale --------------------------------- I'm wondering if we can disconnect Abel as a son. NEHGR 107:208, NEHGR 106:294; TAG 38:13 all agree he has no kn...
  • Abigail Devereaux (1709 - 1728)
    6. Samuel 3 Burrill (John 2, George1) was born in Lynn, 20 Apr., 1674, and died there 23 May, 17 13. He married 14 Sept., 1697, Margaret Jarvis, of Boston. She married, second, 12 May, 1715, Daniel Man...
  • Abigail Gale (1746 - 1840)

About the Gale surname

Gale Name Meaning

English: nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gal ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. English: from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’. English: metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).

Portuguese: from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.

Slovenian: from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.