When John Slack was born in 1784, in Pilsley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Slack, was 23 and his mother, Ann Holland, was 23. He married Mary Green on 9 February 1811, in Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. He died on 29 November 1865, in his hometown, at the age of 81.
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English and Dutch: nickname for an idle person, from Middle Dutch slac, Middle English slak ‘lazy, careless, slow’ (Old English slæc).
English: from Middle English slak ‘small shallow valley, hollow in the ground’ (Old Norse slakki). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a shallow valley or hollow, or habitational, for someone from any of numerous minor places so named, principally in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire.
Americanized form of Slovenian Slak 1 and perhaps also of Czech Šlak (see Slak 2).
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