Vulliamy family

The Vulliamy family originated in Switzerland, they were notable as clockmakers in 18th and 19th century Britain, and as architects in the 19th and 20th century.

• (François) Justin Vulliamy (1712–1797), born in Switzerland, moved to London to study in the 1730s and ended up settling there. He set up a business in partnership with Benjamin Gray (1676–1764), who was in 1742 appointed watchmaker in ordinary to King George II; he married Gray's daughter Mary and had four children with her, namely:
  • Jane Vulliamy (born 1743)
  • Benjamin Vulliamy (1747–1811), took over the business from his father, he married Sarah de Gingins (1758–1841) and had fourteen children, namely:
    • Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780–1854), last in the family clockmaking firm, as none of his children went into it; he married Frances Moulton Stiles (1796–1868) and had three children, namely:
      • Benjamin Lewis (1815–1895), fundholder
      • George John Vulliamy (1817–1886), architect and civil engineer, married Eliza Umfreville (1822–1891), had five children, namely:
        • Eliza Vulliamy (1852– ), married William John Blake (1847– ) and had one child.
        • Benjamin George Vulliamy (1854–1855)
        • Jane Fanny Vulliamy (1856–1942), married Henry Wyndham Burrowes (1852–1929).
        • Lucy Emma Vulliamy (1858–1943), married John James King.
        • Mary Umfreville Vulliamy (1860–1934).
      • Lucy Frances Sarah Vulliamy (1819–1872), married Stephen Jordan Rigaud (1816–1859) and had ten children.
    • Mary Vulliamy (1781–1865)
    • Sarah Vulliamy (born 1783)
    • Francis Vulliamy (born 1785)
    • Justin Theodore Vulliamy (1787–1870), gentleman worsted spinner, married Elizabeth Bull (1800–1863) and had seven children, namely:
      • Sarah Vulliamy (1826–1910), married Henri Poussielque and had two children.
      • Edward Vulliamy (1828–1911), of independent means, married Antoinette La Bouchere (1839–1905) and had four children, namely:
        • Edward Vulliamy (1862–1862)
        • Henrietta Caroline Vulliamy (1864–1949), married Robert Llewellyn Devonshire (1862–1921) and had three children.
        • Anna Marguerite Vulliamy (1867–1946), married William Henry Battle (1855–1936) and had five children.
        • Antoinette Caroline Vulliamy (1869– ), married Frederic Charles Auguste Jung.
      • Justin Vulliamy (1831–1912), of independent means, married Jeanne La Bouchere (1842–1901) and had six children, namely:
        • Agnes Vulliamy (1865–1869)
        • Lucie Vulliamy (1866–1936), married Horace Mark Gregory (1859–1945) and had two children.
        • Gertrude Vulliamy (1872–1926)
        • Lionel Vulliamy (1874–1882)
        • George Alfred Vulliamy (1877–1901)
      • Elizabeth Vulliamy (died 1908)
      • Theodore Vulliamy (1834–1921), of independent means, married Amenaide de Champlois (1844–1902) and had five children, namely:
        • Marie Elizabeth Vulliamy (1863–1941), married John Chevallier (1862–1917) and had three children.
        • Alice Vulliamy (1864–1902)
        • Herbert Vulliamy (1868–1868)
        • Justin Thedore Vulliamy (1869–1911), married Dora Anna Kilburn (1869–1959)
        • Edward Owen Vulliamy (1876–1962), married Katherine Juliet Felicite Tite (1876–1965) and had four children:
          • Justin Edward (1902–1995)
          • Margaret Katherine Felicite Vulliamy (1904–2007) married William Attich Reitzel (1901–) and had three children.
          • Adrian Theodore Vulliamy (1907–1989) married firstly Wendy Joyce Morel (1911–1980) and had three children. Married secondly Felicity Anne Hector Seers (1929–2003).
          • Nicholas Martin Felix Vulliamy (1915–2006) married Audrey Anna Albon (1918–1992) and had two children.
      • Katherine Vulliamy (1836–1919), married Francis Wheatcroft (1835–1870) and had three children.
      • Marie Vulliamy (1840–1885), married George Meredith (1828–1909) and had two children:
        • William Maxse Meredith (1865–1937)
        • Marie Eveleen, known as Mariette (1871–1933) who married Henry Parkman Sturgis (1847–1929)
    • Frances Vulliamy (1788–1798)
    • Frances Lucy Vulliamy (1789–1846), married Frederick Neale (1807–1872)
    • Lewis Vulliamy (1791–1871), architect, married Elizabeth Ann Papendiek (1811–1867) and had five children, namely:
      • Lewis Llewelyn Vulliamy (1838–1899), Civil engineer, married Sarah Walker (1845–1880), had three children:
        • Norah Winifred Vulliamy (1875–1923)
        • Llewellyn Douglas Vulliamy (1876–1966) Chartered Accountant, married Elsie Gibb (1877–1962) and had two children.
        • Lewis Henry Vulliamy (1878–1879)
      • Lewis married secondly Catherine King (1854–1935) and had four children:
        • Ethel Catherine Sinclair Vulliamy (1885–1970), married James Henry Branscombe Petter (1872–1943)
        • Lewis Campbell Vulliamy (1886–1971), married Irene Sherlock Forbes Ross (1895–1959), had two children.
        • Mona Florence Vulliamy (1886–1963), married Justin Drayton Vulliamy (1876–1943), had two children.
        • Mabel Papendiek Vulliamy (1890–1960), married Edward Lynn West and had one child.
      • Henry Paschal Vulliamy (1840–1895), architectural draughtsman, married Alice Mary Marston (1852–1930)
      • Edith Elizabeth Vulliamy (1841–1930), married Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton (1829–1915), had two children.
      • Edwyn Papendiek Vulliamy (1843–1914), married Edith Jane Beavan (1865–1953), had one child,
        • Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (1886–1971), married Eileen Muriel Hynes (1886–1943), had two children
          • John Sebastian Papendiek Vulliamy (1919–2007), architect married Winifred Shirley Hughes, had three children
            • Edward Sebastian Vulliamy (born 1954), a journalist and writer.
          • Patricia Drift Vulliamy (1917–1987), married Arthur Frederick James (1907-1984) and had four children
      • Colwyn Williams (1845–1919), an army officer, married Lilian Isabel Gosling (1866–1949) and had five children:
        • Lilian Isabel Dyddgu Mary Vulliamy (1893–1894)
        • Colwyn Henry Hughes Vulliamy (1894–1972), married Veronica Mary Ellis (1897–1978) and had three children.
        • Beatrice Joyce Papendiek Vulliamy (1895–1950)
        • Joan Isabel Vulliamy (1898–1984), married Francis James Lidderdale (1898–1984) and had two children.
        • Edmund Lewis Llewelyn Vulliamy (1906–1995), married Rosamond Daphne Farrell Palliser (1914–2012) and had two children.
    • Henry Vulliamy (1797–1800)
    • Francis Vulliamy (1794–1798)
    • Lucy Vulliamy (born 1795)
    • Henry Vulliamy (1797–1800)
    • Frances Vulliamy (1798–1798)
    • Frederick Vulliamy (1803–1892), banker, gentleman, married Charlotte Feldwick Crake (1816–1853) and had five children, namely:
      • Alice Hall Vulliamy (1836–1865), married John Smith Owen (1838–1922) and had one child.
      • Arthur Frederick Vulliamy (1838–1915), solicitor, coroner for Ipswich, married Anna Marie Museur (1836–1926) and had thirteen children, including
        • Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy (1869–1923)
      • Herbert Edward Vulliamy (1840–1860)
      • Henry Vulliamy (1842–1933), land agent and surveyor, married firstly Frances Maria Cutler (1842–1875); secondly married Ellen Maria Williams (1852–1882) and had two children; thirdly married Emily Agnes Trigge (1865–1935) and had two further children.
      • Rose Charlotte Vulliamy (1845–1921)
  • Lewis Vulliamy (1749–1822), sugar refiner, married Lucy Frances Lucadou (1765–1849)
  • Mary Vulliamy (born 1750)

Macartney mission to China

A "Vulliamy clock" was presented to the Chinese emperor by the diplomatic mission of George Macartney to Beijing in 1793.

External links

• "Vulliamy family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28357. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)