When Martin Slack Sr was born on 13 December 1825, in Pilsley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Slack, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Greasby Lynam, was 38. He married Eliza Ann Jeffries on 3 December 1851, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Toquerville, Kane, Utah, United States in 1870 and Springdale, Kane, Utah, United States in 1880. In 1910, at the age of 85, his occupation is listed as own income in Washington, Utah, United States. He died on 30 March 1917, in Toquerville, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Toquerville, Washington, Utah, United States.
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The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Iron, Utah, United States
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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Possible Related NamesMartin Slack was born in Pilsley, Derbyshire, England, the 13 of December 1825. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Greasley Lynam Slack. His mother was the second wife of his father. The first wif …
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