This information has been culled from the internet and has not been checked with paper sources. Treat it with suspicion !
Thomas Gale married Elizabeth (born 1766) in Basildon, Berkshire, England. They moved only a few miles in their lifetime, living in Pangbourne, Berkshire. This is where their son James was born in 1807. James went on to become an agricultural labourer.
James married Mary in 1869. Mary was born in 1807, and so was the same age as John. She had previously lived in Upton, Berkshire.
The couple went on to have five children, John (1849), Jabez (1845), George (1835), William (1837), and James (1838 or 1841). William went on to become the publican at The Beehive pub, while James, George and William were labourers. James and George worked on the farm of Henry Hewett in Pangbourne.
James the younger married Sarah Ann, who had been born in Warborough, Oxfordshire in 1848, making her somwhat younger than he was. They had three children, Frederick Gale (1868), Ellen (1870) and Arthur (1877). Frederick became an agricultural labourer at the age of 12, and later became a cowman. The family lived in Pangbourne, with the street address in 1891 being given as New Town (no number).
The 1881 census shows a Henry Green staying overnight, with the annotation of 'brother'. As James has no brothers called Henry, and no sisters who could have married a Henry, this must be Sarah's brother. If so, her parents were Richard Green and Mary Ann Hitchcock, who married in St Helen's Church in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in 1844, and lived in Sunninwell, Berks. Apart from Henry, Sarah had six other brothers, James, Charles, Langford, Albert, Herbert and Shadrack. She was either a very spoilt or a very tortured little girl !
Frederick married Sarah Ann Middleton (1869) who had been born in Wargrave, Berkshire. The couple married in 1900 in Wokingham and continued to live in Pangbourne. They had two daughters, Ethel Ellen (1901) and Doris Marjorie (1907).
Ethel Gale married Frank Webb. Here she is with her mother Sarah Gale nee Middleton.
Ethel Gale when she went into service.
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