When John Agmond Sly was born on 1 March 1873, in Crosby, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Sly, was 51 and his mother, Ann Ida Grothier, was 30. He married Eleanor Green on 12 January 1903, in Lyndhurst, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America in 1911. He died on 13 January 1934, in Kingston Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 60, and was buried in Elgin, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire): nickname from Middle English sle(i)gh ‘sly’ (Old Norse slœgr), which in the 12th–13th centuries developed the sense ‘skillful, expert’, but also ‘crafty, guileful, underhand’. In the North, this word became slee, while in the South and Midlands it became sligh, sly.
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