Stringfellow Family History

English: occupational name from Middle English string-felagh ‘string-fellow man who works at a string-hearth’. This was the hearth or furnace at which iron was heated for its second working.

A 1547 document from south Yorkshire defines the string-fellow's duties: ‘the stringefelloe wages for layeinge the stone and breakeinge and feyinge of synders and breakeinge of the blowme and hewinge’.

Thornhill and Ecclesfield were two of several iron-working districts in Yorkshire.

See also Stringer.