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McDonald, O'Connor
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2013/01/21 - 12:14am
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What is that Mc in McDonald or the O' in O'Connor?

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2013/01/21 - 3:26am
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While these have become unchanging names in English, these prefixes of Names of Irish origin indicated sncestry. Mc indicated "son of" and O indicated "grandson of."

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2013/05/10 - 7:19am
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More, generally, it's a surname prefix

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