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Del Strother Surname Meaning

see Strother. It is a late 19th-century revival of the medieval form of the Northumb family name del Strother. The prefix del was dropped from this name during the 15th century and no record of del Strother has been found again until the 19th century.

According to Durham Place-Names (p. 121) a member of the Strother family owned property in Offerton near Sunderland (Durham) in 147.

The two-year-old William G. Strother in Census 1861 (Stockton on Tees Durham) appears to be identical with the 22-year-old William G. del Strother in 1881 cited below.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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