This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ikJ.2ACIB/1168.3 Message Board Post: My 2xg.grandfather was Charles Copeland b. c1830 who moved to Great Grimsby during the potato famine. In future census info. he gave Newry, Ireland as his birthplace. On his marriage certificate Robert is named as his father and described as a farmer.