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Depicted are the
differenced arms of a cadet branch of the Van Syckle arms granted to
the armiger’s paternal ancestor, Samuel Van Syckle who was resident in
North America prior to 1783. The petitioning armiger, Lloyd George Van
Syckle, was born on 2 October 1925 in Puerta Cortez, Honduras and was
sent to Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ where he was in the Class of
1942. During WW2 he served in the US Navy in the Far East in China
which the US was defending against the Japanese. Postwar, he went to
Stevens Institute becoming an engineer. In 1951 he married Anna Della
Simons and had issue, an only son Lloyd George Van Syckle II born in
1963 and two daughters, Georgiana Van Syckle and Eloise Margaret Van
Syckle. Later as a Department of the Army Civilian he became an
intelligence officer and whilst so serving was sent to the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces gaining the degree of Master of Arts. He
served for many years and retired from Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. His
first paternal ancestor in North America was a Dutchman who came to
New Amsterdam in the 1650s and his descendants became English subjects
in 1687 under James II in order to keep their lands.
Mr. Van Syckle was intensely interested in heraldry and genealogy and
to further those interests, collected books, stained glass, silver,
paintings, documents, etc. He was a Colonel and a senior officer in
the Veteran Corps of Artillery, est. in 1790 in the State of New York,
and which is one of the eight oldest Historic Military Commands in the
US. He was a Member of the Holland Society, the St. Nicholas Society,
the Society of Colonial Wars of New Jersey and the St. Andrews Society
of New York. He was also the Lord of the Manor of Hampten in England
and was part of a group of friends who purchased lands in the Orkney
Islands of Scotland. Colonel Lloyd George Van Syckle died suddenly on
19 October 2008 at the age of 83 and was succeeded in the arms by his
only son, Lloyd George Van Syckle II.
The artwork of the arms shown is from the Letters Patent issued by the
Court of the Lord Lyon. |
