This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper, Brownell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/785.7.2 Message Board Post: The identity of Horace Henry ROPER's (b 1835 - Debenham, Suffolk, England, d aft 1880 - Prob CA) wife Martha is given in my previous Post "Illinois Statewide ROPER Marriages from 1763-1900 BY FIRST NAME" (20 Apr 2005 2:02 AM GMT ) at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.roper&m=752: "ROPER, HORACE H -- BROWNELL, MARTHA C: COOK COUNTY; 3/19/1871; 001/; FINK" This seems most likely to be the Martha C. BROWNELL, age 25, shown in the 1870 U.S. Census residing within the household of Albert and Angeline BROWNELL, age 33, and 31, respectively, in Elmhurst, DuPage County, Illinois. This Martha C. BROWNELL was shown to be a school teacher. This Martha BROWNELL seems to be the daughter of Norman and Mary BORWNELL, of Williston, Chittenden County, Vermont.