Thomas Hales (1504 - 1589)

Born 1504 in Codicote, Hertfordshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Mitchell) Hales — married 1535 in Codicote, Hertfordshire, England

Descendants

Died 23 Jun 1589 at about age 85 in Codicote, Hertfordshire, England

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Biography

53.1 Hale Origins

The Saxon race gave birth to many English surnames -- one of these was Hales, and variant spellings of this name such as Hails, Hailes, Hayls and Hayles. Some claim that the first record of the name Hales was in Cheshire, where they were established in very ancient times, well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

The 1086 Domesday Book, along with other ancient texts such as the Ragman Rolls (1291-1296), the Curia Regis Rolls, The Pipe Rolls, The Hearth Rolls, as well as parish registers and tax records, contain traces of the Hales family. William de Hales appears in the Pipe Rolls of Shropshire in 1180 from the township of Hales. Alexander de Hales, the distinguished theologian and philosopher, was born in Gloucestershire between 1170 and 1180. In 1375 the "de" prefix was dropped on English Place names. Since then, people using this name are known simply as Hales. The Old English "Halh," meaning a "nook, recess or remote valley," hence one who came from such a place, gives rise to the surname Hales. Places named Hales appear in the Domesday Book in Norfolk, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire. The Kentish Hales are said to have come from Hales in Norfolk to Halden, Kent, in the year 1172 according to records published in the Genealogist Magazine. Thus, the Norfolk Hales family and the Kent Hales family are of the same genotype according to The Hales Newsletter.

53.2 Thomas Hale and Anne Mitchell

Thomas was born about 1504 in Codicote, Hertfordshire, England. He and his wife had at least three children. Their oldest son was Richard.

Codicote is a village, and civil parish about seven miles south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

Thomas Hale married Anne Mitchell before 1535 in Codicote, Hertfordshire, England.

(Thomas may have descended from Nicholas Hales of Hales Place in Halden, county of Kent 1250 AD. Nicholas' sons were Sir Robert Hales Knight ,Lord High Treasurer of England and Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, and Sir Nicholas Hales who inherited the family property when Robert Hales was killed in 1343 in the Peasants revolt. Son of Nicholas Hales Knight was Thomas Hales of Hales Place in Halden. Thomas' sons were Thomas Hales, John Hales and Henry Hales. Henry's son was Gilbert Hales of Leveham, England,. Gilbert's son was Edward Hales of Rumford in Essex, England; Edward's son was Thomas Hales of Codicote in Hertfordshire, England who married Ann Mitchell.)

Sources

• Steele & Related Lines Book II (2000) p102
• Descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and Newbury, MA, by Robert Rafford Hale LL.D. with Additions by other members of the Hale Family, 1889 (929.273 H13hr - SLC)
• Genealogy & Descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, & Newbury, MA, by R.S. Hale, pg 5-6, 17 (929.273 H13p - SLC)
• NEH&GR, Vol 31, pg 84
• Prominent Families in America with British Ancestry, 1971, pg 2725 (973 D2pf - SLC)

• WikiTree profile Hale-781 created through the import of sibble_seelye.ged on Jul 5, 2011 by Herbert Wolfe.

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