Born in the parish of Basford, near Nottingham, and was baptised there on the 6th of September 1829, the son of John and Mary Slack. His father had married Mary Ann Ball at Basford on the 24th of March 1824.
1841 Census
Out Gang Lane, Radford.
John Slack, 35, Stockman, with wife Mary, and Joseph, 13, & 5 siblings [aged 2-11 yrs].
Enlisted at Nottingham on the 14th of April 1846.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Stockinger.
Features: Fair complexion. Grey eyes. Sandy hair.
At Scutari General Hospital from the 14th of September and sent to rejoin the regiment on the 3rd of October 1854.
Sent to the Depot at Canterbury when the regiment went to India on 1st of October 1857
Discharged from Maidstone on the 24th of April 1860, as "Free, at own request, with right of registration for a deferred pension of 4d. per day upon reaching the age of 50 years."
Served 14 years 12 days.
Conduct: "good". In possession of two Good Conduct badges. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 32 years on discharge, to live in Nottingham.
Next of kin (in 1854): his father, John Slack, and to whom he sent money from the Crimea.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with four clasps [sic] and the Turkish medal.
Entitled (according to the medal rolls) to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava, Inkerman, Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
1881 census
4, Sparrow Hill Theatre Yard, Loughborough, Leicestershire.
The 1881 Census Returns show him as aged 58, a Retired Pensioner, born at Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, with his wife, Anne, a Hosiery Worker (Cotton), 44, born at Sneiton, Nottingham.
Death registration
The GRO records shows the death of a man of this name, aged 71, in the June Quarter of 1898 in the Loughborough registration district. [RM]
He does not appear on the 1901 Census. [RM]
Census information for 1841 kindly provided by Chris Poole.
