Gales Family History
Gales Name Meaning
English: from Middle English Gallis, variant of
Wallis.Possibly an Americanized form of German
Gölz (see Goelz).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gales Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gales families
 30 - 57  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gales families
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77 - 152 26 - 76 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gales families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gales Family Origin
Gales Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Gales
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Gales Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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