Vanderslice

The Vanderslice Family represented here by HE Lord Robert Barony of Vervold. Vanderslice Meaning:  dweller by the lock or sluice. This Dutch surname of VAN DER SLICE was a topographic name for someone who lived by a lock or weir. The name was originally derived from the Old Dutch word SLUIS, and rendered in ancient documents in the Latin form EXCLUSA (to dam, keep out). The name is also spelt SLUIS, VAN DER SLUIS, VAN DER SLUIJS, VAN DER SLUYS, SCHLIESSER, SCHLEUSSER, SCHLEUTER, SCHLUTER and VERSLUIS. Some of these names may have derived from a town in the province of Zeeland, founded in the 13th century.