The father of the teacher, John Thomas Gale (1839 - 1913), who married, on 21st May 1861, Maria Culbert (1840 -1911), was William Gale of the neighbouring counties of Laois and Carlow.
Maria Culbert was the sister of our paternal great-great grandfather, Henry Culbert/Cuthbert.
John Thomas Gale's father, William Gale, married Eliza Baldwin in 1832.
(A William Gale was buried in Killeshin Parish on the Laois/Carlow border on 16th May 1897; his address at the time of his death was Dublin St., Carlow town, however, this was actually a different William Gale, a tailor who married Ellen Patterson in Carlow in 1850, and whose family was associated with both Dublin St and Burrin St. His brother married an Elizabeth who died in Carlow town in 1886 - the tailor, William Gale, was present at her death.
Two of our William Gale and Eliza Baldwin's children were known to have been born in neighbouring Laois - John Thomas in about 1839, and his sister, Alice Hasset, born in 1845, so it's likely that our branch of the Gales originated in Laois, rather than Carlow, where there is no trace of them on the 1901 census.
Along with John Thomas Gale, who had been born to William Gale and Eliza Baldwin in Laois/Queen's County in 1839, there were the following children:
1) On 30th May 1854, Annabella Gale (1835 - 1868) the daughter of William Gale, a farmer of Carlow, married the scripture reader, William Winton of St.Mary's, Kilkenny. William's father was John Winton, a shoemaker at the time of his son's marriage to Annabella; the witnesses were Ulysses Thorpe, a carpenter, and William Gale.
William Winton had been born in Ireland in 1831; his father, an English soldier, took him to Gibraltar, before returning to Ireland in 1842. William Winton was a shoemaker like his father before him, and an evangelical preacher/scripture reader. By 1852, two years before his marriage to Annabella Gale, William was working in the Irish Church Mission in Knocktopher, Kilkenny. By 1861, the family had moved to London.
Annabella Winton, née Gale, died in 1868 in Kensington, London, and William Winton married again.
2) On 23rd August 1859, Harriet Baldwin Gale, the daughter of William Gale, a scripture reader of Carlow, married John Benjamin Warren of Bagenalstown, Carlow. John Benjamin Warren was a clerk of the petty sessions, as was his father, Edward Warren. Harriet Gale was a schoolteacher (like her brother, John Thomas Gale) at the time of her marriage, and was living in Borris, Co. Carlow.
The witnesses were William Aylward and William Gale.
Harriet and John Benjamin Warren had children in Bagenalstown, some of whom were registered:
Amy Harriett Warren, born 1863.
Edward Kossuth Warren, born 1863, died 1873.
Rebecca Annabella, born 1869.
John William Warren, born 1871.
John Edward Warrren, born 1876,
Josiah William Warren, born 1873.
Samuel Baldwin Warren, born 1880.
Edward Warren, born 1881.
John Benjamin Warren (1838 - 1899), died Carlow.
Harriet Baldwin Warren (1849 - 1885), died Carlow.
Their daughter, Eva Elizabeth Warren, married Frederick W. Martin, an engineer of Bagenalstown, Carlow, on June 3rd 1899. Frederick W. Martin had been born on the Island of Jersey to the mechanic, Olef Martin.
This couple moved to England shortly after their marriage.
Other members of the Warren family of Carlow emigrated to Canada and to South Africa.
3) Samuel Baldwin Gale, son of the scripture reader, William Gale, married Mary Jane Smith in Dunleckney, Carlow, on 19th September 1882. Samuel Baldwin Gale was probably much older than his wife.
Mary Jane was the daughter of a gamekeeper, William Smith of Dunleckney. Although Samuel Baldwin gave his address as Dunleckney, he was working as a tramway conductor in Dublin at the time of his marriage in 1882.
The witnesses were Edward Coburne and William Smith.
Samuel and Mary Jane had a daughter, Olivia Elizabeth Jane Gale, on 10th March 1884 in Kilcarrig, Dunleckney, Carlow. At the time of the birth, Samuel was working as a writing clerk. This daughter musst have died in infancy since there seems to be no further trace of her anywhere.
Samuel Baldwin Gale and his wife, Mary Jane, emigrated to New York in 1884, where they had a son, Frederick William Gale, in 1889. Samuel died shortly after, and his widow married a second time to Prescott Burnham of Massachusetts. In 1900, however, Frederick W. Gale, aged 10, was living in the Orphan Asylum Society in New York.
His mother, Mary Jane Gale, married Prescott Burnham on 8th October 1904 in Manhattan. The groom's parents were John Burnham and Patience W. Sampson; Mary Jane's were noted as William Smith and Jane Louise Ussher. They were living in Manhattan in 1920, along with Mary's son, Frederick William Gale, but by 1930, Prescott has died, and Mary Jane and Frederick were alone in the household.
4) Alice Baldwin Gale (1845 - 1927) and Thomas Hasset married in Limerick in 1871.
Alice and Thomas Hassett appear on the 1901 Census living in Limerick at Ballinacurra with their children. Thomas was an ironmonger/merchant who'd been born in Limerick in 1851. (Later in 1911, Alice's brother, John Thomas Gale, worked at Hassett's Ironmongers.)
Alice Gale had been born in Queen's County/Laois in 1845. (Her brother, John Thomas Gale had also been born there.)
Thomas William Hassett, aged 28.
James Baldwin Hassett, 26.
Henry Frederick Hassett, 23.
Alice Gale Hasset, 21.
Annabella Katherine, 18.
Thomas Hassett founded Hassetts Ironmongers in Limerick, still in business today, in 1890, and in 1911 his brother-in-law, John Thomas Gale, was working for him.
Alice Baldwin Hassett, née Gale, died in Ballincurra, Limerick on 16th September 1927.
Origins of this Gale family:
Detailed early records simply don't exist to support this theory, so much conjecture is necessary for the moment. There were few Gale Births/Deaths/Marriages for Limerick, where John Thomas Gale and his sister, Alice Hassett, settled, so I'm starting with whatever Gale records for Limerick I could stumble across, although it's important to state that I have found no definite clues as to this family's origins as yet. The following people are unlikely to be related, but genealogy involves accumulating mountains of information before discovering the correct links!
A John Gale and his wife, Alice Gale, were running the Ragged School in Limerick, and this couple appear in the street directories for the city from 1867 until 1880 at Roches Street.
Our John Thomas Gale was also running a Ragged School in the same area of Limerick in 1879 at Bowdey's Lane, and in 1884 at Glentworth Street. John and Alice Gale are promising therefore.
Eliza Gale, the widow of Captain William Gale of Valleyfield, Ballyroan, Laois, died, aged 68, in Limerick on 25th September 1875. She had been born, therefore, in about 1807; her husband, Captain William Gale of Valleyfield, was most likely much older, since he had a brother, Parnell Gale, who had been born in 1772, and a sister, Frances Gale, who was known to have married a member of the Kearney family in 1800. Another sibling was Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield. There was also a brother, Commandant Anthony Gale of the US Marines.
These were all the children of Anthony Gale and Ann Delany of Ashfield Hall, Ballinakill, Laois/Queen's County.
From The Freeman's Journal of 1841:
'In this city, David Armstrong Esq., of Baggot Street, to Harriet Maria, fourth daughter of the late Captain Gale of Valleyfield in the Queen's County.'
(The above Captain was Captain Thomas Gale of Valleyfield.)
At Kingston, Ontario, Canada on August 15th 1843, Andrew Drummond, son of the late Robert Drummond, married Jane Ann Gale, youngest daughter of Captain Gale of Valleyfield.
Peter Gale (1804 - 1857) of Ashfield Hall, Laois, married Anna Maria Harriet Lynch, the daughter of Captain Fleeson of the 6th Dragoon Guards, in St. George's, Hanover Square, London, in 1837. This Peter Gale was the last of the Gale family to live at Ashfield in Laois. He also owned property in Carlow, but was forced by debt to sell up in the 1850's following the Famine.
(I only mention the above because of the following: as already mentioned above, Parnell Gale was the brother of Captains William and Thomas Gale of Valleyfield, and an early mayor of Galway, whose son also carried this peculiar name. It is known that the Gales of Queen's County intermarried at one stage with the Parnell family which also originated in Laois and which would later produce Charles Stewart Parnell. Hence the name Parnell Gale.
My grandfather, Bertie Stewart, told of a visit to his elderly Stewart aunts, Emily Jane, Louisa Helen, Mary Elizabeth and Catherine. They explained a highly complex link between our family and Charles Stewart Parnell, which, later, nobody ever believed or took the time to remember clearly. We had always assumed that, if there was a link, that it would have been through the Stewart family, but Charles Stewart Parnell's mother,the American Delia Stewart, descended from a Stewart family which had emigrated to the States from Co. Antrim, and not from Down where our Stewart family had their origins.
I wonder were the elderly aunts, therefore, referring to a complex and distant link via their sister-in-law, Rebecca Cuthbert, who had married their brother Robert Stewart? Rebecca's paternal aunt was Maria Culbert who married John Thomas Gale of Laois in 1871, and if he was a member of the Gale family of Valleyfield, then they would have been aware of his relative, Parnell Gale, and of the reasons for his given name. This requires a great deal more research, so I'm merely collecting what I have so far here....)