When Maria Johanna Slijk was born on 13 May 1886, in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, her father, Klaas Slijk, was 22 and her mother, Johanna Margaretha Meijn, was 18. She married Jacobus Johannes de Valk on 20 August 1913, in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She died on 24 November 1960, in her hometown, at the age of 74.
Possibly an Americanized form of German Schlick .
English: nickname from Middle English slik, sliche, sleke (Old English slice) ‘sleek, plump, fat’.
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