Oropher could have been of the House of Elwë, we don't know for sure. All we know is that he came over with the "wave" of Sindarin immigrants before the year II 1000. We don't hear anything about him in the First Age, so that suggests (but doesn't prove) that he was born early in the Second Age.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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