Christian Derrick

AUDITED 5 Aug 2026 - [561] CHRISTIAN DERRICK, first citation of any kind.Named as a parent in Gilbert Cope, Genealogy of the Sharpless Family (1887), p. 423, entry 685: "son of Christian Derrick and Maria Rosina Gartenmeyer, of Philadelphia". That is the whole of what this source says about him - it names him and places him at Philadelphia, and dates nothing.CORROBORATION OF RESIDENCE, from a different record class: the Philadelphia city directories place a Christian Derrick, labourer, at 8 North Fifth Street in 1793 and 1796, the 1796 entry listing "Derrick Chriftian, labourer, 8 No. Fifth St." immediately above "Derrick Philip, 8 do." Co-residence of the two men is evidence of household, not proof of paternity.⛔ STILL WHOLLY UNCITED: his birth of 14 Apr 1732, the birthplace "Nuenstein, Germany" (probably Neuenstein), and his death of 7 Sep 1798.⛔ A HYPOTHESIS TESTED AND KILLED, recorded so nobody re-runs it: he and his wife died three days apart at Philadelphia in September 1798, which is the shape of the 1798 yellow fever epidemic. Condie and Folwell's published List of Deaths for that epidemic contains NO Derrick and NO Gartenmeyer. Controlled: the D run reads Derkin, Derrickson, Dermot with the target slot present and occupied; the G run reads Gardner, Garlany, Garwood; and the list files wives under husbands, so she would appear under D too. Also zero in Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810, which does include St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Philadelphia marriages 1745-1800 (internal controls: Maria 438, Rosina 51).☞ NEXT DOCUMENT, and it is probably where the tree's uncited values came from: The History Center, Diboll - Latane Temple Papers, Collection 1985:001, Series VIII, Folder 16, "Genealogy of William S. Derrick and History of Temple Family Name". No access restrictions per the finding aid.INSTRUMENT: the archive.org scan of the 1797 Philadelphia Directory is MISSING its entire D section (jumps Cummings to Eckstein). 1797 is exactly the year that would tighten the death window, so any zero from that item is false.