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Pages in category "Van Wyck family" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Augustus Van Wyck; C.
van Wyk is a common Afrikaans surname, derived from the Dutch Van Wijk. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Erasmus van Wyk (born 1952), South African taxonomist
East wing of the house Inside the house. During the American Revolutionary War, the property was the home of Isaac Van Wyck.However, because of its strategic location with regard to the Hudson River and major roads, the Old Albany Post Road (later US 9) running north–south and the road running east–west (later NY 52 and Interstate 84), it was requisitioned by the Continental Army.
van Wyk was born in 1835 to a mixed-race Baster family in the Fraserburg district in the Cape Colony, today South Africa. [1] His mixed-race clan was living at De Tuin in the Northern Cape until 1868 when they decided to leave the Cape Colony because of the discrimination and harassment they faced from white people. van Wyk was already the clan's leader at that time.
In a tribute to Van Wyk after his death, South African musicologist Jacques Pierre Malan wrote that the creation of a South African abstract art music "was the work of one man, the prophet of South African music, Arnold van Wyk. He was our first sovereign sound-master, the first one to draw attention abroad as a creative artist, the first to ...
Robert Anderson Van Wyck was the son of William Van Wyck and Lydia Ann Maverick. He was one of seven children, including two brothers Augustus and Samuel Maverick, a Confederate Regimental Surgeon. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He studied at the Wilson Academy in North Carolina , and later graduated from Columbia University , where he was valedictorian of his ...
It was founded as a parish of the Dutch Reformed Church on the farm Buffelsfontein in 1904 and named after the Van Wyk family. [2] References
Van Wijk is a Dutch toponymic surname. "Wijk" may refer to Wijk bij Duurstede or a number of other towns, including Wijk near Leusden , Beverwijk , Rijswijk , Waalwijk , and Wijk aan Zee . 12,750 people in the Netherlands carried the name in 2007. [ 1 ]