Florence Elizabeth Slack

Brief Life History of Florence Elizabeth

When Florence Elizabeth Slack was born in June 1878, in Wellington, Shropshire, England, her father, Richard Slack, was 46 and her mother, Emma Harris, was 38. She had at least 6 sons and 5 daughters with John Jones. She lived in Wellington, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Madeley, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died in 1961, at the age of 83.

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Family Time Line

John Jones
1873–1936
Florence Elizabeth Slack
1878–1961
Richard Jones
1898–
William Jones
1906–1983
Edith Lucy Jones
1899–1972
Sidney Jones
1901–1942
John Jack Jones
1904–1902
George Jones
1908–1985
Florence May Jones
1910–1992
Gwendoline Jones
1912–1930
Kathleen Muriel Jones
1913–2000
Albert Jones
1915–2004
Lilian Camelia Jones
1917–1988

Sources (2)

  • Florence Slack in household of Richard Slack, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
  • Florance Jones in household of John Jones, "England and Wales Census, 1911"

World Events (8)

1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children

School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.

1884

Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).

1904 · The Entente Cordiale

The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.

Name Meaning

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).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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