GALE, SAMUEL

Land surveyor, of Dublin. Samuel Gale had been taken into the partnership of SHERRARD & BRASSINGTON  SHERRARD & BRASSINGTON by 1828, when the name of the firm is given for the first time in Wilson's Dublin Directory as SHERRARD SHERRARD , BRASSINGTON & GALE BRASSINGTON & GALE . In 1832 the partnership became BRASSINGTON & GALE BRASSINGTON & GALE (1) and as such is listed in the directories until at least 1900. Samuel Gale's name disappears from the directories between 1875 and 1883, as does that of Samuel Gale, jr, presumably a son, who in 1874 had the same work and home addresses - 52 Sackville Street Upper and 160 Rathgar Road - as Samuel Gale, senior.(4) By 1883 only a Mrs Gale was living at the latter address. RICHARD GALE  RICHARD GALE was another son.

Addresses:(4) 24 Dominick Street Lower, 1832-33 ?12 Richmond Place, 1834-35 (name given as Samuel Geale); 6 Blessington Street, 1836-37 (but Brassington & Gale listed at 24 Dominick St Lr, 1833-39); Janeville, Killester Road, 1841; 4 Bachelor's Walk, 1844; Clontarf Town, 1844 (but Brassington & Gale at 4 Bachelor's Walk); Belle-View, Killester, and 5 Bachelor's Walk (Brassington & Gale also at 5 Bachelor's Walk); 6 Bachelor's Walk and St Alban's, Rathgar Road, 1857-1863; 52 Sackville Street Upper and St Alban's, 160 Rathgar Road, 1874-75.

See also BRASSINGTON  BRASSINGTON family.

(1) J.H. Andrews, Plantation Acres (1985), 282.
(2) 3)TICEI 16 (1885), ?.
(4) Samuel Gale, junior, is listed as an engineer at 9 Sackville St Lower in the Trades Directory section of Thom's directories for 1873-1875.
(4) From Wilson's, Thoms's, Pettigrew & Oulton's and Post Office directories.