Wane in my family tree
English: metonymic occupational name for a carter or cartwright, from Middle English wain cart, waggon (Old English wœgen). Occasionally it may have been an house name for someone who lived at an house distinguished with this sign, probably from the constellation of the Plough, known in the Middle Ages as Charles's Wain, the reference being to Charlemagne.
Variants: Waine, Waines, Wayne; Wainman; Wane (Lancashire); Wenman, Whenman.
Cognates: German: Wagenmann.
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