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.
This is Matilda Archer, sibling of James Archer and Alfred George Archer. She lived entirely in Victoria's reign, and was one of more than 12 children of John Archer (brewer) and Fanny Leaver, of whom (the siblings), Rosa was the youngest and lived on with her father after all the others had left home, being described (Rosa) by him as 'afflicted'.