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.
This shows the elusive Martin Johnson who married Ellen Johnson, the daughter of Jonathan Wilkinson and Bridget McKay. We can’t really track-down Martin Johnson with any certainty yet. He is the father of Minnie Johnson, ANPG’s mother, the famous WW1 caterer, whose photograph we have. Names like “M. Johnson” are notoriously difficult to pin-down in public records with any certainty. But we shall do it in the end!