AGA & family 1901 - enlarged

AGA & family 1901 - enlarged

This is an enlarged view of the census page of the preceding frame in this album. And you can clearly see that:

Alfred George Archer is “Head” of the house, married, age 53, that he is an “Inland Revenue Officer” and thus a “Worker” ie not self-employed,  and that he was born in “Oxford” (actually, from memory, at the home of his parents in St Aldates Street. south Oxford; and

Olive “E” (for Emma) Archer, his wife, who is “Married” and age 52, and was born in Cornwall, at Fowey, where her peripatetic Inland Revenue Officer father, Edward Reed, was employed at the time (1849 roughly); and

Olive R Archer, their eldest daughter, is aged 28 and apparently not employed at the time. She was my grandpa William’s eldest sibling, and lived on in Oxford for the rest of her life, inheriting (an assumption on my part, but I don’t see how it can be otherwise) a house in St Margaret’s Road, and being known to me (in the 1940s) as ‘Aunty Rose’, and a friendly old lady she was;

Then comes WGRA, my grandpa William, who, to the best of my knowledge, never was a schoolteacher, but, may have intended to become one, and indeed the same could almost be said of me (that I never actually became an employed schoolteacher, though I did definitely intend to be one and trained accordingly);

And then comes: Herbert J Archer, Single (ie not married), age 20, and who is a “Worker” being a  “House furnisher’s Assistant”, having been born  (like his brother William) at Shillingford, when the family lived 10 to 20 miles south of Oxford while their father worked for HMRC at Dorchester. It is interesting that Herbert is obviously working for Mr George Blake, the house furnisher, with whom his brother William soon began to work and whose (adopted) daughter Elizabeth Emma (Gilder) William married in 1902.

qaa© Philip B Archer 2014