Last name: WAINWRIGHT
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WAINWRIGHT : This last name is indexed 81,795 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WAINWRIGHT : English (Lancashire Yorkshire and Cheshire): occupational name for a maker of carts or wagons from Middle English wain-wright ‘wagon-builder cart-maker’ (Old English wægn-wyrhta).
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