Stringer Family History

English:: occupational name from Middle English strenger stringer ‘man who worked at a string-hearth or furnace’ synonymous with Stringfellow. The name occurs frequently in districts where iron was smelted in medieval times.

Occupational name for someone who made or worked with string from Middle English strenger stringer an agent derivative of Middle English streng(e) string(e) ‘string cord’ (Old English streng).

The term was also used of someone who made strings for bows in 1420.