The surname Heale is of English origin. It is a topographical name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, derived from the Old English ‘hale’, ‘h(e)alh’, nook, hollow, recess. The name thus comes to signify ‘dweller at a corner ( of land )’; corner, nook, or secret place. In Northern 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 however it seems to have meant often to have reffered to a patch of dry land in a fen. It may also be a habitational name derived from the several places in England so named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition such as -at. The name may also derive from the Anglo-Saxon personal name ‘Hoele’, signifieing man, hero. The name dates back to the eleventh century were a William de Hales is recorded in historical archives. The name was brought to America by English immigrants. One of the first fore fathers to bring this name to Ame…
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