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.
Alongside the formal pond, wondering whether a sound heard from further up the garden is worth investigating. Mac took an early bath in both ponds not long after arriving, struck-out strongly for the bank in both cases, and swiftly emerged looking very bedraggled, but none-the-worse, and, actually, much more inclined to treat the waer with more respect in future.