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Jemima Derrick was born on 6 March 1738/9 in St. Paul's Parish, Stafford County, Colony of Virginia. She was the daughter of Edward Derrick and Jemima Powell.[1]
This Jemima Derrick, the daughter of Edward Derrick and Jemima Powell, was not the Jemima Derrick who married John Thomas at St. Paul's Parish on 10 August 1741. Her father Edward died when she only two years old, and the Jemima Derrick who married John Thomas a few months later was her widowed mother, Jemima (Powell) Derrick.
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John Thomas' wife is currently "Jemina (Derrick) Thomas" and should be Jemima (Powell) Derrick. Jemima Powell daughter of Richard Powell and his wife, Grace married 1) Edward Derrick and 2) John Thomas. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I50368&tree=Tree1 They did not have a daughter Jemima Derrick (who is currently attached as the wife of her father. Additional information is found on the profile for Jemima Powell: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Powell-4710
There are no reliable sources cited on this profile, and Powell-4710 appears to be well-sourced to support these claims, so I am going to propose the merge of Derrick-209 into Powell-4710. If anyone objects, please weigh in.
Jemima Derrick: Source InformationDodd, Jordan. Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: Dodd, Jordan, comp.. Virginia Marriages to 1800. Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Virginia.
Jemima Powell: Source Information Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014. Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
They are not the same people. They are mother and daughter.