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This project was created about September 2006.
No coat of arms for all whose name is "Dykes" has been identified from a valid source. The Dyke families of Somerset, England, and Sussex (Dyke baronets) do have a coat of arms: Or, three cinquefoils sable (alt view).
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Nederlands origin
The name was first found in Holland, Nederland. It was first recorded in Amsterdam. The Dykes family was elevated into the ranks of nobility.
English origin
The name is understood to have an origin with entangling it with the hamlet of Dykesfield in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumbria, near the Scottish border, where they are said to have dwelt before the time of Willelm de Normandie, taking their name from Hadrian's Dyke (Hadrian's Wall) which forms part of the border for Dykesfield. The oldest surviving written document places them at Dykesfield at the end of Henry Plantagenet III's reign. In its earliest form it apeared as del Dykes ('of the Dykes').
It could also share a common derivation with 'Dick', thence also 'Richard'.
Notable ancestors:
1925 — William Rickatson Dykes, amateur botanist who became an expert in the field of iris breeding, dies.