When Helen Strachan was born in 1823, in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Strachan, was 23 and her mother, Helen Moir, was 20. She married John McIntyre on 29 November 1845, in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 13 December 1892, in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 69.
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Scottish (Aberdeenshire and Angus): habitational name from Strachan in Banchory (Kincardineshire), pronounced Strawn. The placename derives from Gaelic srath ‘valley’ + a lenited form of the local river name Feugh.
Irish (Mayo): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Srutháin, Ó Sruitheáin, ‘descendant of Sruithán’, a personal name from a diminutive of sruith ‘sage, elder’.
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