This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ellis Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZYB.2ACI/906 Message Board Post: Most of the Ellis family in the uk census 1881 are listed has polish tailors some with german wives . Does any one have any information on a Copeland marrying a Hansel from Germany around the turn of the 1800s.