When Mattie Jane Wann was born on 20 June 1828, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States, her father, Robert Jasper Wann, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Rachel Poe, was 33. She died about 1870, at the age of 43.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (northern; Durham) and Scottish (Fife): from Older Scots and Middle English wan ‘wan, pale’.
German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Wano, a short form of Wambald (see Wambold ).
German: topographic name denoting a basket-shaped valley or on a basket-shaped knoll, Middle High German wann(e) ‘basket’ (see Wanner and Wannemacher ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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