23rd Dragoon Guards
Canada, British Regimental Registers of Service
7 May 1808
James ROPER, 5ft 6¾in; aged 24y 155d; fresh complexion; hazel eyes; lt brown hair; round face; Derby; Crich; labourer; enlisted on 7 May 1808
From this his approximate birth year was 1783 at Crich.
James ROPER was baptised at Crich 20 July 1783, father William ROPER