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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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
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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