Helen Meade Hale

GEDCOM Note

<p>Owen was a Welsh Prince who married a sister of Henry II and became Lord of Hales in the early thirteenth century, this could be the origin of Hale.</p><p>English (1) topographic name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from OE hale, dat. of h(e)alh - nook, hollow or recess. In N England the word often has a specialized meaning denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, originally one deposited in a bend; in the South East it seems often to have referred to a patch of dry land in a fen.