McBride - Bumpus Genealogy

                                                         Van Dyke


Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by any of the many thousands of dikes in the Netherlands (Middle Dutch dike ‘dike’), or a habitational name for someone from any of the many places in Belgium and the Netherlands called Dijk, Dijke, or Dyck, named with this word.


 


                                       VAN HORN
 
Locality.  from the town of Horn or Hoorn, in Holland.




                                      VAN TILBURG
 
Dutch: habitational name for someone from Tilburg in North Brabant.




                                       V O O R H I E S
 

(Origin Dutch) From voohuis, the fore-room of house below, a hall.
Voorhees
Dutch: habitational name from a place in Drenthe called Voorhees.

      Anatomy  of  the  " V " Surnames

Origin - Meanings of Surnames beginning with " V "