Researching Francis Archer
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Records of Francis Archer on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Francis Archer and the Archer Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Archer Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Archer family tree.
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Archer Family Tree Databases
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Archer Forums
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Miscellaneous Archer Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Francis Archer. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Francis Archer
Francis Archer
Francis Archer MRCS (1803–1875) was an Irish physician and naturalist.
He was born in Belfast on April 23, 1803. He studied medicine at Edinburgh. He practiced in Liverpool, where he was the prison surgeon. He was married to Frances Fletcher. They had six children.
He specialized in conchology, initiating what became the basis for a large family collection, some of which later became part of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Archer was one of the founder members of the Belfast Natural History Society and later became the first President of the Liverpool Natural History Society. He also was a member of the Belfast Phrenological Society.
He died on April 5, 1875.
His two sons continued the work of their father --- Francis Archer Jr. (1839–92), a solicitor, journalist and naturalist who collected Mollusca which he obtained on trips to Puffin Island and Liverpool, in conjunction with research activities of the Liverpool Biological Society; and Samuel Archer, (1836–1902), an Army surgeon and ship's surgeon on the SS Great Britain, who collected shells in Singapore and many other parts of the world where he traveled, both with his regiment and in retirement.
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