When Irene Stroud was born on 19 February 1935, her father, Ronald Stroud, was 31 and her mother, Lydia May Waters, was 32. She died in January 2005, at the age of 69.
English (southern): from Middle English strode ‘marshy ground’ (Old English strōd). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on or near marshy ground, or habitational, for someone from any of several places so named, including Stroud (Gloucestershire, Middlesex), Strood (Kent), and Strode in Winford (Somerset).
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