The barony of Straiton is in the county of Midlothian on the outskirts of the city of Edinburgh.
[3] The historian Alexander Nisbet said that the family received their lands of Straiton from David I of Scotland.
[3] The historian George Fraser Black has suggested that he may be the same Alexander de Straton who is described as of our blood in a charter by David II of Scotland to him.
[3] In 1351, John de Stratton dominus ejusdem (of that Ilk) witnessed a charter of lands.
[3] In 1451, Cristina de Stratone granted a charter in favour of the Friars Preachers in Aberdeen.