The Big 'Extended Family of Friends' at The Bridge Methodist church, Radcliffe, Lancs (2):

Phil’s History:

A ‘work in progress’ family history website starting from an Archer family of South Oxford, who were freemen, brewers, haulage contractors, and first ‘Archer & Co’ then ‘Archer Cowley & Co’ furniture removers in the 19th and 20th Centuries, inter alia, to whom are linked by marriage the Penfolds and Wells of Southwark and Surrey, the Reeds of Devon, the Gilders of Oxford and Hinckley, the Morgans of Petworth, Sussex, the Garners of Middleton, Lancs and many others. There are connections via Phil and the present generation (born 1930s/40s) with a patent law firm known as "UD&L" with motor-racing and Scottish antecedents.

The Bridges and the Kirkmans at The Bridge

And here are the Bridge family themselves, including Alice Bridge.Kirkman (see previous page), with her siblings, including her brother Frank, who married into the Garner family, marrying Annie Garner, sister of Sam Garner, father of Ruth Garner, Phil's wife.

So Frank and Annie's four children, Peter, David, Philip and Kathleen are Ruth's cousins, and part of the 'extended family of Bridge Methodist friends', and were an inspiration to me in the sense of being so much closer to Ruth than were many of my Archer cousins, whom I hardly knew at all.

Phil’s History:

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The Big 'Extended Family of Friends' at The Bridge Methodist church, Radcliffe, Lancs (2):