What is the history of the surname "Street"? Also, where can I find Street family portraits?

Question

I am directly descended from an Irishman named John MacStreate who came to Virginia as a ship captain in 1609 and signed for the Second Virginia Charter. I've been told by my great grandfather that I'm descended even further to a king named "Harold or someone else". Any place where I can find Street family history that dates back further than 1067 AD? Or/and where I may find portraits of Virginia Street families or glass frame portraits of older portraits? What is the origin of the Street family?

Answer 1

Street
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Hertfordshire, Kent, and Somerset, so named from Old English str?t ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (Latin strata (via)). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village, and so the surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived on a main street.
Jewish: Americanized form of the Sephardic surname Chetrit, of uncertain origin.
Americanized form of Ashkenazic Jewish Strasser and a number of other similar surnames.
Have a look at the family "coat of arms" below.
http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=Street

Answer 2

Street Family History

Answer 3

The same name can come from more than one nation. Also, not everyone with the same surname is necessarily related. See the links below.

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerpsst.cfm

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.htm

Rootsweb(freesite) has over 50,000 entries in family trees for the name Street.
Now information in family trees on any website, free or paid, must be viewed as clues not as fact. Most is not documented.
Often times you see the same information over and over by different submitters, without documentation, and all too frequently there is a lot of copying being done.

However, if you see anything that interest you, you can probe a name and it will take you to a screen that will give you the name and the email address of the submitter. Sometimes a submitter might not know too much because the Street they have might just be someone who married into their family, but some will.

After you pull up the site, put Street in the World Connect Block.

Answer 4

Genealogy research is a lot of hard work. The Internet is making it a bit easier but it is still a lot of hard work. Especially to go back to 1067.

But you can start with the Mormons archives. They have info on a lot of people, not just Mormons.

Good luck.

Answer 5

lol. That is very funny. You got a photo of the back of your heads too. I never had a family portrait by your method or any other.

Answer 6

Take a look at this web site, and see if any of your distant relatives have posted pictures there. www.ancientfaces.com