Re: Levi Wainman and Mary Snyder b. 1842
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Re: Levi Wainman and Mary Snyder b. 1842
Laurie Wainman 5/23/07
Laurie:
Origin of the name Wainman?
I think this is legit, but its a good story anyway. In the early 1960s in toronto I was scrounging to find a rooming house where I might hole up and finish my journalism course with a pass mark, far away from the partying of my former roomates.
I knocked on a door of a huge old Victorian rooming house near Eglington and Youge, and this very whacky looking old woman squeaked open the huge oak door, glared at me a moment sizing me up, then asked my name.Gordon Wainman, says I. Says she: A Saxon, eh? Says I: I have no idea.Says she: You are a Saxon... Wain is Saxon for wagon...man is what it is. Gordon Wagon man.
Now given what I know of our family line of farm laborers in Yorkshire and maybe before that in Saxony, I'd guess it means hay wagon driver.Being the romantic, I like to think 'wagon man' means a stage coach driver, maybe a stage coach robber, a highwayman, a Robin Hood, maybe?
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Origin and meaning of Wainman
Kendell Wainman 2/25/09