Strenger Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Ancestors listed as Strenger are often found as Stringer a generation earlier. Its meaning, shared with Stringer, is “maker of bowstrings”.

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Strenger and Stringer

Strenger writes “e” in place of the “i” found in Stringer, a typical scribal difference. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Stringar.

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