Stranahan Family History
- Stranahan Name Meaning
- Irish (County Down): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sranacháin ‘descendant of Sranachán’, a personal name apparently derived from srann ‘snoring’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 31,024 Historical Documents with Stranahan on Ancestry
- 8,040 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,888 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,154 Military Records
- 689 Immigration Records
- 14,253 Member Trees
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Number of Stranahan families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Stranahan census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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