Gysbert op den Dyck

Abt 1528 - 1585  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Gysbert op den Dyck
  Birth	Abt 1528  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Apr 1585  [1]
  Person ID	I36861	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Lodowick op den Dyck,   b. Abt 1492   d. 27 May 1571 (Age ~ 79 years)
  Mother	Aletta Zailen
  Marriage	1522  [1]
  Family ID	F21664	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maria Ryswick   d. Aft 19 Apr 1585
  Children	+ 1. Lodowigh op den Dyck,   b. Abt 1565, of Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany d. Aft 1614 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Family ID	F21663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From The op Dyck Genealogy, citation details below: He was seven times elected Town Councillor from the Cow Gate Ward, was Supervisor of the City Poor one year, and for the last six years of his life served and received salary as Werkmeister or Commissioner of Public Works, an office held by his father before him. As Supervisor and Commissioner he received from the city the usual Christmas gifts of wine. His wife acted one year as Inspectress of city washerwomen, and as such received a like gift. He appears as of the Cow Gate Ward on two fortification tax lists, in 1568 as paying the tax (see Lodowick6) and in 1582 as excused from contributing by reason of his services as Commissioner of Public Works. He was busied with the construction of the very works to pay for which the tax was levied, and it is pleasant to think that to his skill and energy the city in part owed its strong walls and picturesque towers, shown in the drawing made by Mercator in the year of Gysbert's death [...] In the midst of his official work, Gysbert's next neighbor in the Cow Gate Ward, the widow van Elverick, brought suit against him, and obtained judgment that he repair the party wall between her house and his. The court record incidentally mentions that he had inherited the house in question, and there is no reason to doubt that it was identical with the one settled upon his father and mother on their marriage in 1523, and then described as next to the house of a van Elverick in the Cow Gate Ward. We infer that Gysbert's efforts to put the city in a state of defense had prevented him from giving due attention to his private affairs. It was probably owing to the same reason and to the general disturbances of the time that the estate of his father was not settled until after Gysbert's death, and that during his life-time we find the payments on the Mathena house entered in the name of the heirs of his father and uncle. In 1585 Gysbert's name appears on the account book of St. Willibrord's among the very few citizens on whose death the great bells of the church were rung. Wesel was still a Romanist town when he came into the world; before he died it had become Protestant.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6105] The op Dyck Genealogy, Containing the Opdyck-Opdycke-Opdyke-Updike American Descendants of the Wesel and Holland Families by Charles William Opdyke with Leonard Eckstein Opdycke. New York, 1889.