When Mildred Ruth "Milly" Slater was born on 26 April 1903, in California, United States, her father, Lewis Mathew Slater, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Ruth Thompson, was 25. She married Louis Lorenz Stein Jr. on 5 November 1927, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Contra Costa, California, United States in 1930 and Judicial Township 7, Contra Costa, California, United States in 1940. She died on 20 May 1989, in Alameda, Kern, California, United States, at the age of 86.
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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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