Question about Irish family last name?

Question

My Grandma and I where talking this week about her genealogy project.She was wondering if the Irish last name Carruthers is pronounced as Cathers.ThanksJN

Answer 1

Scottish: habitational name from a place near Ecclefechan in Dumfries, locally pronounced ‘kridders’. The name is first recorded in 1334 in the form Carrothres, and then more clearly in c.1350 as Caer Ruther, and derives from British caer ‘fort’ + a personal name.

I have never heard it pronounced any other way than how it is spelled.

Answer 2

Carruthers is a Scottish name from the lands of Carruthers in parish of Middlebie in Dumfriesshire . Although true " Doon hammers " to quote a local idiom , some of the Carruthers probably went over to Ireland as " Planters " - what our colonial cousins usually  refer to as " Scots Irish . " Black ( who was a Yank !! ) wrote in his master piece " The Surnames of Scotland " ( New York Public Library : 1946 ) that in local speech ( Dumfriesshire ) the named was pronounced " Cridders ".