I've put Sopers in the 1881 census of England & Wales on the internet, I hope it's useful. It's on
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~soperstuff/census/1...It's a first experiment with web publishing, please let me know of mistakes, or if it can be improved.
The data came from the Mormon site
www.familysearch.org. So this is now third-hand information. Hopefully there's not too many errors.
The census has 1,931 entries: (1,841 Soper, 44 Soaper, 17 Souper, 11 Sopper, 9 Sopher, 4 Sopers, 3 Sopar, 2 Sooper)
Nearly all lived in England's southern counties, about 45% were living in the SW tip in Devon (732) & Cornwall (55)
Another 40% were in the South East counties of Hampshire (199), Surrey (229), London (242) & Kent (110)
I thought it would make a good notice board for researchers, so there is a reference number added for each person. If anyone would like to attach a note to any reference number. You can either use this newsgroup or send it in to the web site on
http://www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~soperstuff/cens... (but sorry if it take a while to appear)
geoff_soper, Surrey, England