Helena Eleanor Derickson

Helena Vandever

• Daughter of Jacob Jacobson Van Der Veer and Catharina Jane Brassert
• Birth: 1690 in Sweden
• Death: circa 1734 (40-48) in Wilmington, New Castle, DE, United States

Spouse

• Married: Zacharias Derrickson, son of Olle Derrickson, c. 1701. Over the next sixteen years she had nine children, all of whom grew to adulthood and married. She died about 1734. Her husband remarried and died in 1748. - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000000241393599?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000094720084821&position=0

Their children:

• Jacob Derrickson (1702-1728) married Annika Justis 9 June 1728. No children.
• William Derrickson(1704-1766) mar- ried Maria Peterson in 1735 and had eight children.
• Helena Derrickson(1706-after 1776) married Jonas Stedham in 1727. They had nine children.
• Kerstin Derrickson(1708-1738) mar- ried Peter Anderson in 1728. She died in October 1738 as the result of childbirth after bearing six children.
• Elisabeth Derrickson(1709-after 1737) married John Smith in 1727. He died one year later.
• Catharine Derrickson(1711-after 1764) married 1st Robert Robinson by 1730, 2nd John Loinam in 1745. She had six chil- dren by her first marriage and three children by her second marriage.
• Zacharias Derrickson(1713-1776) married Sarah Sullivan in 1735 and had eleven children.
• Peter Derrickson(1715-1753) married Margaret Stille in 1740 and had five children.
• Cornelius Derrickson(1717-1787) married Mary Vanneman in 1756 and had four children.

Source - Swedish Colonial News, Volume 3, Number 10 Spring 2009, Preserving the legacy of the New Sweden Colony in America, page 6 - http://colonialswedes.net/images/Publications/SCNewsSpring09.pdf