When William Leroy Slater was born on 8 February 1920, in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel O'Connell Slater, was 37 and his mother, Clara Agnes Fredley, was 30. He died on 3 November 1992, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Resthaven Gardens of Memory, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.
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English:
occupational name for someone who lays slates on roofs, from Middle English sclat(t)er, occasionally slater ‘slater’ (a derivative of Old French esclate ‘slate’ + the Middle English agent suffix -er). See also Slate .
in Sussex and adjacent counties, Slater and Slatter are probably post-medieval pronunciations of Slaughter ; there seems to be no medieval evidence in the southern coast counties for the occupational name Slater in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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