Roper Family History
Roper Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker or seller of rope, from
an agent derivative of Old English rap ‘rope’. See also
Roop.Variant of French Robert.North
German (Röper): occupational name for a town crier, from an
agent derivative of Middle Low German ropen ‘to call’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Roper
Name Distribution of Roper Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roper families
 87 - 172  30 - 86 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Roper families
|
438 - 873 147 - 437 |
1 - 146 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roper families
|
17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roper census records
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Roper Family Origin
Roper Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Roper
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Roper Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Roper census records
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Roper Civil War Service Records
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