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in reply to a message by Street
No. You'll find the difference at http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Streeter-family-history.ashx and http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7tsc4/id139.html.
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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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