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Re: Place Names
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Strother is a surname and place names of the Anglo-Scots border. Reaney and Wilson explain it as "dweller at the place overgrown with brushwood", but that surely would be from a place called Stroth. George Fraser Black explains the cognate Scots surname, Struthers, as being from the Middle English "strother, meaning marsh or swamp".
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