Place name origins

[DanTribe]

My wife noticed that there is a creek in the Walton Backwaters called Cunnyfur Ooze.
She reckons it was because rabbits were kept there, [ as in coney].
But my first thought was it was more related to beaver.
Any thoughts?

 

[sarabande]

conifer, as in there used to be a pine forest here till the East Coast flooded.

 

[Bru]

I'd go with the wabbit theory

 

[sailorman]

Elmer Thudd Island,has no pesky wabbits at all