Stranahan Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Stranahan Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Stranahan

The Stranahan family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Stranaghan, Strachen and Straughan. This is a name of territorial origin, from the lands of Strachan in Kincardineshire, meaning 'of Strachan'. This name is of Scottish descent and is found in many ancient manuscripts in that country. Examples of such are Waldeus de Strachan who granted the lands of Blarkerocch to the church of St. Andrews in the year 1200. A John de Strachan resigned his lands of Beth Waldef to the Abbey and Convent of Dunfermline in 1278. Names were recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for the overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When the overlords acquired lands by either force or as gifts from their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. In Ireland this name and its many variants were first introduced into Ulster Province by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland, especially during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stranahan can also be derived from the Gaelic O'Stranachain sept of County Down.