This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/796.1 Message Board Post: In my previous Post, I asserted that Mary SMITH, of Lewisham, Kent, was likely to be John and Esther ROPER's daughter. Clearly, this does NOT make sense. Mary SMITH must have been their daughter-in-law, married to a son of John and Esther ROPER. Elijah ROPER, shown to be age 9, seems likely to be the child shown in the English Civil Registration Index as Simeon Elijah ROPER, whose birth was registered at Downham District, Cambridgeshire / Norfolk during June Quarter 1840 [Volume 13, Page 73]. It would appear that Frederick and Elijah ROPER's father died between 1840 and 1851.