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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English and Scottish : topographic name from northern Middle English strother ‘damp land overgrown with brushwood’, or a habitational name from any of the various places named with this word, as for example Strother in Tyne and Wear, or Struthers in Fife and Strathclyde.
  • A William Strother is recorded in VA in 1673, probably the same man who, as William Strouder, was granted land in 1658.

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