Years ago my daughter, Dani, was asked to prepare a report on her heritage. This was perplexing since she was going to school with children of various cultural and/or ethnic backgrounds and our family was just plain old White folk. I told her that she was American and that there were traces of her name throughout American history. Recently, I came across information to support this claim. The Strother family began in the USA in the mid-1600's with the arrival of William (The Immigrant) Strother.

First of all, I want to give credit and thanks to my cousin Larry E. Strother and his daughter Angie who together provide the information shown here. Thanks cousins!!
 

Primary Descendant	Siblings
William (The Immigrant); 1627(?1630) - 1702; m. Dorothy Savage
Robert; 1680 - 1735; m. Elizabeth Berry	William, Jeremiah, James, Benjamin, Joseph
James; 1720 - 1778; m. Martha French	John, Robert, Enoch, Priscilla Elizabeth
Reuben; 1745(?1777) - 1837; m. Susannah Bartlett	James, Jeremiah, Benjamin
Thomas B; 1779 - 1855; m. Jane	Sarah, Nancy Ann, Ann, Susannah, Charlotte, French, John, Mary "Polly", William, Lucinda, Betsy, Reuben
Thomas, Jr.; 1810 - 1874; m Elizabeth Crook	Sanford, John, Reuben, Elizabeth, Reuben
William Loudin; 1854 - 1891; m.Cordelia Kezia Root	James L, Victoria L, Amanda J, Margaret F, Sarah C, Frances M, Benjamin
James Matthew; 1878-1972; m Bertha Utter	Albert B, Bertha I, Charles Willoughby, Lucy May, Emma Belle, Daisie
James Matthew, Jr; 1923 - ; m. Sarah Alzora McClung	Raymond Snowden, Nellie, Beulah, Willard, Velma
Thomas F; 1948 - ; m. Kathleen M. Musty; m. Melissa A. Hauck Kling	Beverly Dianne
Rebecca Danielle; b. 1988. Stephanie Nicole; b. 1989

Before William The Immigrant: WILLIAM¹³, LANCELOT¹², WILLIAM¹¹, WILLIAM¹⁰, WILLIAM⁹, RICHARD⁸, THOMAS⁷, WILLIAM⁶, THOMAS⁵, WILLIAM⁴, JOHN³, HENRY², WILLIAM¹

It is likely that the Strother family name can be traced to William the Conqueror of Normandy. This would be the lineage:

William the Conqueror + Matilda of Flanders

Henry I m. Princess Maud
Princess Matilda m. Geoffrey Plantagenet
Henry II (Plantagenet) 1133 m. Eleanor of Aquitaine
John I 1166 m. Isabella of Angouleme
Henry III 1207 m. Eleanor of Province
Edward I (Longshanks) 1239 m. Princess Eleanor of Castile
Edward II 1284 m. Isabella of France
Edward III 1312 m. Philippa of Hainault
John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster)1340 m. Catherine de Roet
Joan Beaufort m. Sir Ralph Neville (Earl of Westmoreland)
Sir George Neville (Baron of Latimer) m. Elizabeth Beauchamp
Sir Henry Neville 1437 m. Joan Bourchier
Sir Richard Neville (Baron of Latimer) 1466 m. Anne Stafford

Dorothy Neville (of Latimer) 1496 m. Sir. John Dawney
Anne Dawney 1535 m. Sir George Conyers (Coigniers)
Sir John Conyers m. Agnes Bowes

Elinor Conyers 1570 m. Lancelot Strother
William Strother III 1597 m. Barbara Grey (?)
William Strother (The Immigrant) m. Dorothy Savage
 

The surname Strother, found in England and Scotland, is of two distinct derivations, both of which are of locative origin. Locative surnames are those names which derive their origin from a geographic or man-made feature near which the original bearer lived or held land. In the first place, Strother is taken directly from the Middle English word "strother", meaning "marshy land overgrown with brushwood". This name was firstly given to a person who lived by, or near a place of those characteristics. Alternatively, the surname Strother derives from the Gaelic word "sruthair", meaning "current, stream, or river". Here, the name signifies "one who lived by or near a current, stream, or river".

Among the variants of the surname Strother are: Strothers, Stoter, Strotter, and Strothman. The earliest references to the surname Strother or to the variant include a record of one Alan del Strother, who was bailiff in Tindall in 1358. We also find one William Strother, who was mayor of Newcastle in the year 1360. Later records of the surname mention one George, son of William Strother, who was baptized in Saint James Church, Clerkenwell, in the year 1706.