>>Come on, Terry, you can do better than that. 3rd grade material at best <s>.
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>It's a fair cop. I'm from Liverpool, but there is no concensus as to the etymology of the name.
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McDonnell
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhomhnuill, a patronymic from the personal name Domhnall (see McDonald).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

McDonald
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhomhnuill, a patronymic from the personal name Domhnall, which is composed of the ancient Celtic elements domno- ‘world’ + val- ‘might’, ‘rule’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Yep - hamburgers rule the world. Hasn't this been covered already?

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>>Livermore
>>English: probably a habitational name from Livermere in Suffolk. This is first found in the form Leuuremer (c.1050), which suggests derivation from Old English lefer ‘rush’, ‘reed’ + mere ‘lake’. However, later forms consistently show i in the first syllable, suggesting Old English lifer ‘liver’, referring either to the shape of the pond or to the coagulation of the water.
>>Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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>>'the pond' above I assume is referring to Ampton Water, which does have an odd shape.
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>>Oh, and it wasn't just the weather that spurred the emigration - witchburning, of which we seem to be so famous for, didn't originate here <s>
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>Well that's a contradiction. As soon as they lit the fire the deluge would come down and immediately put it out!
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Hence the move to the New World.