Does anyone recognize the name GEORGE TOPLIS (also spelled Toplass, Topless, Toples)? He came to the US through New York in 1833 from Derbyshire, England. He was the brother of Elizabeth Toplis Burton (who came to Montgomery Co. with her husband William in 1832), of Dorothy Toplis Ripton (who came to Johnstown with her husband Benjamin Ripton in 1821) and of Lydia Toplis Hunter (who came to Johnstown with her children in 1842). The records in England confirm that George "went to America," I have his entry in the passenger lists, and I think it likely that he would go to the same area where two of his sisters already lived. However, I can't find any trace of him in the 1840 census anywhere (he could, of course, have been living with someone else) nor in the 1850 census. He was probably dead, but I just wondered if the name rang any genealogical bells for anyone in the Fulton-Montgomery area. Joanne Gaudio