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.
Mac and his beloved Mallard - a present from his ‘Aunty H’ in Leeds, whose encouragement for our ‘Puppy Project’, as I used to call it before Mac came, went a long way towards its ultimate success, not least in keeping our courage up in those times when comments as to our sanity in taking on a puppy at our time of life, seemed to make good sense. Mac is clearly planning another assault on the Mallard, preparatory-to ‘giving it a good-shaking’ (as all well-bred terriers should).