English: topographic name from Old Norse storð
‘brushwood’ or ‘young plantation’. There is a place so named in
Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), as well as a High Storrs in
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, both named from this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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