When Susanna Strout was born in 1743, in Cape Elizabeth, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Elisha Strout, was 29 and her mother, Alice Smith, was 25. She married Anthony Eddy on 11 April 1764. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died after 1800, in Limington, York, Maine, United States.
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In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
English: nickname for an argumentative person, from Middle English strout, strut ‘strife, dispute, debate’ (Old English strūt).
English: from the Old Norse personal name Strútr, Strut, apparently a nickname from strútr ‘pointed hood’ (referring to a cone-like ornament on a headdress or cap).
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Stroet: habitational name from Stroet in North Holland or a topographic name from Dutch stroet ‘brush, thicket, swamp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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