When Frederick Slack was born on 18 June 1862, in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Slack, was 36 and his mother, Rebecca Phillips, was 31. He married Martha Wellings in 1891, in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Northwich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Northwich, Northwich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died in March 1944, in Hull, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81, and was buried in Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom.
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The Great Reform Act of 1867 gave males the right to vote. This also helped to form the Welsh Liberal Party. It was the second of three reforms that would take place.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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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