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.
So, as you can see from my mother (Gwenda’s first cousin), Gwen Archer (nee Penfold)’s handwritten note, this is from the Guardian of Thursday 17th January 1991. The text is on the next photo. Gwenda died on 9th January 1991, age 82. I will soon add her c.v. and further information about her life. As indeed her obituaries say, she was of a most retiring disposition, and so it seems right to be correspondingly circumspect about her life and I will do my best to respect that principle.(3.4.15).