AGA marriage licence

Phil’s History:

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.

On 21st October 2006, I transcribed this text from Alfred George Archer and Olive Emma Reed's marriage licence.

The licence appears to be a very particular one which is applicable only to the Weleyan Chapel in Wells and is not valid in any Church of England church. Alfred George was, to tbe best of my knowledge, the first Archer in this family to become a Methodist, and this may well have been under the influence of Olive Emma Reed's family, which had very strong Methodist connections, including to the Wesleys themselves.

Phil’s History:

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