RE: HerkChick@aol.com http://www.mpx.com.au/%7Ehugho/webdoc5.htm Clan O'Connor Our name, in Irish Gaelic, is Ó Conchubhair. Today this is pronounced owe-kru- who-ear. In other pronounciations it ranges from owe-con-ear to owe-con-coo- ear. The spelling of the surname varies from sept to sept - mine, above, is O'Connor Kerry - and there are regional adaptions and other approximations such as Conaire (Conroy) http://www.vretail.com/names9.htm#O: O'Connor O'Connor, with its variants Connor, Conner, Connors etc., comes from the Irish Conchobhair, from the personal name Conchobhar, prehaps meaning 'lover of hounds' or 'wolf-lover'. This was one of the most favoured of early Irish names, and gave rise to the surname in at least five distinct areas, in Connacht (O'Conor Don), in Offaly (O'Conor Faly), in north Clare (O'Conor of Corcomroe), in Keenaght in Co Derry, and in Kerry (O'Connor Kerry).