When Elizabeth Slack was christened on 22 November 1702, in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Slack, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Robinson, was 26.
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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