This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Strange, Roper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/744.2.1.3 Message Board Post: Based upon the family recollection that George ROPER was married to an Anne STRANGE, I located the 1881 Census record for James STRANGE, of Ipswich, Suffolk, whose household in 1881 reflects and Annie STRANGE of rather precisely the correct age to be Annie M. Strange ROPER: England Census -- 1881 St. Peter's Parish, Bridge Ward, Ipswich, Suffolk No. 89, Panold?? Yard 6, James STRANGE, Head, Widower, General Labourer, Born Suffolk Holbrook Annie STRANGE, Daughter, Unmarried, Female, Age 18, Box Maker, Born Suffolk Ipswich Mary STRANGE, Daughter, Unmarried, Female, Age 12, Scholar, Born Suffolk Ipswich Ellen STRANGE, Daughter, Unmarried, Female, Age 9, Scholar, Born Suffolk Ipswich John STRANGE, Son, Unmarried, Male, Age 7, Scholar, Born Suffolk Ipswich * * * It appears that George ROPER and Annie STRANGE were NOT yet married at the date of the 1881 Census enumeration.