JC Gale was a b*gg*r to trace!
b.Uploders 1817 (Loders OPC) to John & Diana (nee Lilly). Don't know what happened to Mum, but Dad remarried to Sarah (nee Bugler) in 1838.
1841 census: Higher Buckham, Beaminster. He's plain ol' James Gale (20). HO 107/280 F7P7
1850: m.Jane Staple, but transcribed as John Cox Gale (Beaminster OPC)
1861 census: East Street, Beaminster. He's now James C Gale (44). RG9/1365 P29
I did some work recently on George STAPLES b.1806 Stoke Abbott. He proved a challenge too!