a) habitational name from Gowdall in East Yorkshire, named from Old English, golde 'marigold' + Old English halh 'nook', 'recess'. b) from Middle English gode 'good' + ale 'ale', 'malt liquor', hence a metonymic occupational name for a ...
[1809 - 1956] Dubley Archives and Local History Service: Shut End bEstate/b and former tannery at Stourbridge [1667-1939] Dudley Archives and Local History Service: Album of Photographs of Works [1919-1928] Dudley Archives and Local b.../b
