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.
Flight International’s piece on 4.2.1911, listing Ernest Archer among those early aviators. He in fact appears as number 5 in the list here, along with his date of birth in 1874 (4 years older than his brother William), in Wells, Somerset, where his father Alfred George Archer had worked for Edward Reed in the Inland Revenue service, and met and married Edward Reed’s daughter Olive Emma.