Slack Family History
- Slack Name Meaning
- English and Dutch: nickname for an idle person, from Middle Dutch slac, Middle English slack, ‘lazy’, ‘careless’. English: topographic name from northern Middle English slack ‘shallow valley’ (Old Norse slakki), or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, for example near Stainland and near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Scottish (Dumfriesshire): habitational name, maybe from Slake or Slack in Roberton, Roxburghshire (now part of Borders region). It may also be an Americanized spelling of Slovenian Slak, a nickname from slak ‘bindweed’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 756,229 Historical Documents with Slack on Ancestry
- 278,068 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 154,676 Census and Voter Lists
- 21,485 Military Records
- 12,855 Immigration Records
- 289,145 Member Trees
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Number of Slack families
 418 - 833  140 - 417 |
 1 - 139  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Slack families
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57 - 111 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Slack census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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