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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Slack
Name Distribution of Slack Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Slack families
 418 - 833  140 - 417 |
 1 - 139  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Slack families
|
12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Slack census records
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Slack Family Origin
Slack Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Slack Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Slack families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Slack Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Slack census records
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Military Service by Slack
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