Northern English and Scottish: topographic name from northern
Middle English strother ‘damp land overgrown with brushwood’,
or a habitational name from any of the various places named with this
word, as for example Strother in Tyne and Wear, or Struthers in Fife
and Strathclyde.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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