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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.
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