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/795.1 Message Board Post: The John ROPER (b abt 1830 - Thornham, Kent, England) who seems to have had a son named Joseph Stanley ROPER is shown in the 1851 Census of England residing with his brother Batchelor ROPER (b abt 1825 - Thornham, Kent, England) and younger sister Frances ROPER (b abt 1833 - Hollingborne, Kent). They are all residing on a 100 acre farm in Hollingborne. Neither Batchelor ROPER nor John ROPER is yet married. * I should again emphasize that any family connection between this Hollingborne ROPER family and an Irish ROPER family from which Stanley ROPER, of Philadelphia, emerges is strictly conjectural.