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  • AsSakran Abu Bakar Assegaf (b. - c.1456)
    DECEASED
  • al-Hakam bin Abu al-ʻAs ibn Abi al-'As (c.599 - d.)
    Original name Hakam ibn Wa'il . Also known as al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As .Source 1: ibn Abi al- As ibn Umayyah (Arabic: الحكم بن أبي العاص‎ / ALA-LC: al-Ḥakam bin Abī al-‘As) was the father of the Umayyad...
  • 'Amru ibn Abu Kariba As'ad (deceased)
    Tubbaʿ“The people of Tubbaʿ” ( qawm tubbaʿ), an extinct community mentioned twice in the Qurʾān. Among other pre-Islamic groups, they were punished because they refused to believe God or obey God's pro...
  • Angela van Bengale, SM/PROG (c.1648 - bef.1720)
    And partner of Angela van Bengale? Jan van As or Asschen was from Brussels and he arrived at the Cape in 1659, he then worked as a cooper. ? Arrival 1671 with his spouse at the Cape ? Children still bo...
  • Anna Petronella Elizabeth van As (1849 - 1929)
    CIVIL dEATH: BIRTH:

About the van As surname

The original surname was Van Assche. In Latin it was de Asca and it has its origin in a village called Assche close to Brussels in the current Belgium (at the time it was known as the Hertogdom Brabant). They were de Heren Van Assche and had the "Heerlijkheid Assche in Leen van de Hertogen van Brabant". The surname is known from circa 1068. From that time the name Hendrik van Assche is known.