Santry Family History

English: from Middle English and Old French seintuarie ‘sanctuary shrine’ (from Late Latin sanctuarium a derivative of sanctus ‘holy’). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived near a shrine or else a nickname for someone who had had occasion to claim sanctuary in a church or monastery where he would have been afforded immunity from arrest or injury.

English: Anglicized form by folk etymology of Old French ceinturier sainturier ‘maker of belts or girdles’. Compare Center and Saint.

Irish (Cork): habitational name Gaelicized as de Seantreabh and de Saintreabh from Santry (Irish Seantrabh) in Dublin. This is one of the very few Irish surnames derived from a placename.