This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LOPAS, Spencer, Stanley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yh.2ADE/1938 Message Board Post: Jospeh Spencer and Nancy Stanley were married in 1848 in Edwards County. They may have been married nearer to Grayville than to Albion. Their granddaughter, Reva Goodman Stroh wrote to me in 1981. She wrote that her grandparents had been married by the Rev. T. C. Lopas. However, she failed to mention the religious affiliation or whether it was a church wedding. Joseph Spencer was christened a Roman Catholic in 1816 in Brindle, Lancashire, England. Although he had two sisters that were Sisters of the Order of St. Joseph of Corondolet, I believe he at some point in his life left the Catholic Church and became a Primitive Baptist. I am questioning whether Rev. Lopas might have been a Father Lopas. The Stanleys had very large families and may have been Catholic, too. Does anyone else have a relative married by the Rev. T. C. Lopas in the middle of the Nineteenth Century? In either White or Edwards County? Could he have been a travelling priest? Was he a local minister in Grayville or Albion?