English: habitational name from any of various places, in
Bedfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Somerset,
Suffolk, Surrey, and Wiltshire, so named from Old English
str?t ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (see Street) +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. A place of the same name in
Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, probably
has as its first element Cornish stras ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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