Hello Kerry,
The back problem is one step forward and two steps back (mmm!) at the moment.
Had an appointment this morning with a physiotherapist for my dad, she took one look at me getting out of the chair and said, 'Two patients for the price of one - lower back pain?'.
She checked dad (very strong muscles for a man of 88 years),
then gave me some exercise advice, which was kind.
I wish you well with your physio, I was very lucky when I had similar problems a few years ago. I do send you all my best wishes.
All being well, my web site will be changed over this month.
I have been in touch with Ray's widow and his daughter will help to take my old web site down. I have not heard of any plans regarding Ray's own website.
The records on Cosford are all from parish records, so therefore baptismal not birth records.
I did contact a few of the transcribers when Ray was ill, some of the people who helped were researching particular names in Lavenham etc.
It might be possible to find out by checking my website under Roper, see if any of those listed are mentioned on the Home Page of Ray's website in his thanks to transcribers. Might be worth a try.
I'm not surprised you are having problems tracking down the right Roper - there are so many of them both back in the ancestral records as well as today.
I will have to go to Bury St Edmunds RO in the next few weeks (I am receiving Annual Reports from Local History Recorders all over the county and I have to place them in the appropriate RO in our SLHC folders).
If you have not solved the problem - I will PM you when I get a chance to get to Bury and will have a look in the PRs there for you.
All my best wishes, Pat ...
