The Roulliers of Peckham & Camberwell
I am posting this as I would love to hear about my family’s history, hopefully back to its Huguenot beginnings. I get regular emails from Roulliers all over the world, it seems apart from me, we are are taken the clan to the four corners of the Earth. I am a Roullier on my maternal side, my mother’s family home on East Dulwich Grove, opposite Alleyn’s School, was destroyed during the war. My Grandfather, Richard Roullier, was a volunteer fireman and was killed by a bomb dropped on his fire station at around the same time. With him, and the house, all our family records were destroyed. Grace, my Grandmother who eventually remarried, never discussed her routes much with me, and my mother’s memories are very sketchy. My Grandmother died a longtime ago. To me it is strange that my branch of the Roullier family, as probable lace makers, never settled in the East End but instead chose rural Peckham & Camberwell, which was then in Surrey, where they appear to have flourished. The first Ro...