Mary Magdalena Catharine Hedirck's parentage is still in question. Wolf family oral history and some early written documents said she was daughter of Capt. Peter Hedrick but that can be disproved as he died not have such a daughter.
Best data using DNA matches puts her in Goetdmann Heydrick, son Hans/Johann Adam Heydrick, son Christopher Hetrick & 3rd wife, Maria B Brosius b. 1754 d. 1803 family.
She was found to be between 60 and 70 in 1830 AR census. Based on that and DNA matchesI am placing her with these parents, but AM stating that I do not HAVE hard copy documentation PROOF. There was the death of a second wife and a third marriag - just the DNA matches. The time lapse is well shown between the last son by the second wife and the first daughter belonging to the third wife. The father Christopher,was very elderly. If data can be found after 15 August 2017 to prove another set of parents for Mary Magdalena Catherina Hetrick, then I would certainly accept such. Hopefully, some other family members will take up the task of trying to prove who her parents were because at this point it is only best guess.
If this Christopher Hedrick was her father, Mary Magdalena Catherine would have been 8 years old when he died; so it is reasonable to me that her father's brother, Peter Hedrick - father of Capt Peter Hedrick, would have taken the family in and thus have given her the close association with Capt Peter Hedrick which has been well documented. I believe she was Capt. Peter Hedrick's cousin and not his daughter as some early researchers speculated.
The elder Peter Hedrick did not die till 1798 which was some 17 years after the death of his brother, Christopher - the person I believe to be the father of Mary Magdalena Catherine Hedrick. It has always been believed but unproven that Michael Wolf's father, Jacob Wolf, served under Capt. Peter Hedrick during Revolutionary War. We know they were friends as they lived on adjacent land in NC and Capt. Peter Hedrick was bondsman when Jacob Wolf was appointed Constable in Salisbury, NC in 1788.
Christopher Hetrick's third wife is only known as Anna Barbara in any documentation I have found and the surname Brosius is only added from the DNA test results from some of her descendants. (bap records of his last known children: Maria Margareta b 1769; Bernard b 1771; and Maria Mathalena b 1773) He was a very old father, but all these Hedrick men were.
One other possibility could be that she is granddaughter to a Hedrick male we have not found yet. Christopher may well have had a wife and children before he emigrated (at age 34) to USA, and we know of at least one child of he and his 1st or earlier wife had when he was 42 (earliest known bap date for children).
Regardless of her parentage, Mary Magdalena Catharine Hedrick married Michael Wolf and became the mother of his thirteen children.
(The top photo is a close-up of the tablet marker on the left in the second picture. On that tablet marker, Catharine Hedrick Wolf is the fourth name on the Territorial Period listing of burials in the Wolf Cemetery. It shows that her grave is unmarked. Photos courtesy of Glenn Luther.)
Best data using DNA matches puts her in Goetdmann Heydrick, son Hans/Johann Adam Heydrick, son Christopher Hetrick & 3rd wife, Maria B Brosius b. 1754 d. 1803 family.
She was found to be between 60 and 70 in 1830 AR census. Based on that and DNA matchesI am placing her with these parents, but AM stating that I do not HAVE hard copy documentation PROOF. There was the death of a second wife and a third marriag - just the DNA matches. The time lapse is well shown between the last son by the second wife and the first daughter belonging to the third wife. The father Christopher,was very elderly. If data can be found after 15 August 2017 to prove another set of parents for Mary Magdalena Catherina Hetrick, then I would certainly accept such. Hopefully, some other family members will take up the task of trying to prove who her parents were because at this point it is only best guess.
If this Christopher Hedrick was her father, Mary Magdalena Catherine would have been 8 years old when he died; so it is reasonable to me that her father's brother, Peter Hedrick - father of Capt Peter Hedrick, would have taken the family in and thus have given her the close association with Capt Peter Hedrick which has been well documented. I believe she was Capt. Peter Hedrick's cousin and not his daughter as some early researchers speculated.
The elder Peter Hedrick did not die till 1798 which was some 17 years after the death of his brother, Christopher - the person I believe to be the father of Mary Magdalena Catherine Hedrick. It has always been believed but unproven that Michael Wolf's father, Jacob Wolf, served under Capt. Peter Hedrick during Revolutionary War. We know they were friends as they lived on adjacent land in NC and Capt. Peter Hedrick was bondsman when Jacob Wolf was appointed Constable in Salisbury, NC in 1788.
Christopher Hetrick's third wife is only known as Anna Barbara in any documentation I have found and the surname Brosius is only added from the DNA test results from some of her descendants. (bap records of his last known children: Maria Margareta b 1769; Bernard b 1771; and Maria Mathalena b 1773) He was a very old father, but all these Hedrick men were.
One other possibility could be that she is granddaughter to a Hedrick male we have not found yet. Christopher may well have had a wife and children before he emigrated (at age 34) to USA, and we know of at least one child of he and his 1st or earlier wife had when he was 42 (earliest known bap date for children).
Regardless of her parentage, Mary Magdalena Catharine Hedrick married Michael Wolf and became the mother of his thirteen children.
(The top photo is a close-up of the tablet marker on the left in the second picture. On that tablet marker, Catharine Hedrick Wolf is the fourth name on the Territorial Period listing of burials in the Wolf Cemetery. It shows that her grave is unmarked. Photos courtesy of Glenn Luther.)
Mary Magdalena Catharine Hedirck's parentage is still in question. Wolf family oral history and some early written documents said she was daughter of Capt. Peter Hedrick but that can be disproved as he died not have such a daughter.
Best data using DNA matches puts her in Goetdmann Heydrick, son Hans/Johann Adam Heydrick, son Christopher Hetrick & 3rd wife, Maria B Brosius b. 1754 d. 1803 family.
She was found to be between 60 and 70 in 1830 AR census. Based on that and DNA matchesI am placing her with these parents, but AM stating that I do not HAVE hard copy documentation PROOF. There was the death of a second wife and a third marriag - just the DNA matches. The time lapse is well shown between the last son by the second wife and the first daughter belonging to the third wife. The father Christopher,was very elderly. If data can be found after 15 August 2017 to prove another set of parents for Mary Magdalena Catherina Hetrick, then I would certainly accept such. Hopefully, some other family members will take up the task of trying to prove who her parents were because at this point it is only best guess.
If this Christopher Hedrick was her father, Mary Magdalena Catherine would have been 8 years old when he died; so it is reasonable to me that her father's brother, Peter Hedrick - father of Capt Peter Hedrick, would have taken the family in and thus have given her the close association with Capt Peter Hedrick which has been well documented. I believe she was Capt. Peter Hedrick's cousin and not his daughter as some early researchers speculated.
The elder Peter Hedrick did not die till 1798 which was some 17 years after the death of his brother, Christopher - the person I believe to be the father of Mary Magdalena Catherine Hedrick. It has always been believed but unproven that Michael Wolf's father, Jacob Wolf, served under Capt. Peter Hedrick during Revolutionary War. We know they were friends as they lived on adjacent land in NC and Capt. Peter Hedrick was bondsman when Jacob Wolf was appointed Constable in Salisbury, NC in 1788.
Christopher Hetrick's third wife is only known as Anna Barbara in any documentation I have found and the surname Brosius is only added from the DNA test results from some of her descendants. (bap records of his last known children: Maria Margareta b 1769; Bernard b 1771; and Maria Mathalena b 1773) He was a very old father, but all these Hedrick men were.
One other possibility could be that she is granddaughter to a Hedrick male we have not found yet. Christopher may well have had a wife and children before he emigrated (at age 34) to USA, and we know of at least one child of he and his 1st or earlier wife had when he was 42 (earliest known bap date for children).
Regardless of her parentage, Mary Magdalena Catharine Hedrick married Michael Wolf and became the mother of his thirteen children.
(The top photo is a close-up of the tablet marker on the left in the second picture. On that tablet marker, Catharine Hedrick Wolf is the fourth name on the Territorial Period listing of burials in the Wolf Cemetery. It shows that her grave is unmarked. Photos courtesy of Glenn Luther.)
Best data using DNA matches puts her in Goetdmann Heydrick, son Hans/Johann Adam Heydrick, son Christopher Hetrick & 3rd wife, Maria B Brosius b. 1754 d. 1803 family.
She was found to be between 60 and 70 in 1830 AR census. Based on that and DNA matchesI am placing her with these parents, but AM stating that I do not HAVE hard copy documentation PROOF. There was the death of a second wife and a third marriag - just the DNA matches. The time lapse is well shown between the last son by the second wife and the first daughter belonging to the third wife. The father Christopher,was very elderly. If data can be found after 15 August 2017 to prove another set of parents for Mary Magdalena Catherina Hetrick, then I would certainly accept such. Hopefully, some other family members will take up the task of trying to prove who her parents were because at this point it is only best guess.
If this Christopher Hedrick was her father, Mary Magdalena Catherine would have been 8 years old when he died; so it is reasonable to me that her father's brother, Peter Hedrick - father of Capt Peter Hedrick, would have taken the family in and thus have given her the close association with Capt Peter Hedrick which has been well documented. I believe she was Capt. Peter Hedrick's cousin and not his daughter as some early researchers speculated.
The elder Peter Hedrick did not die till 1798 which was some 17 years after the death of his brother, Christopher - the person I believe to be the father of Mary Magdalena Catherine Hedrick. It has always been believed but unproven that Michael Wolf's father, Jacob Wolf, served under Capt. Peter Hedrick during Revolutionary War. We know they were friends as they lived on adjacent land in NC and Capt. Peter Hedrick was bondsman when Jacob Wolf was appointed Constable in Salisbury, NC in 1788.
Christopher Hetrick's third wife is only known as Anna Barbara in any documentation I have found and the surname Brosius is only added from the DNA test results from some of her descendants. (bap records of his last known children: Maria Margareta b 1769; Bernard b 1771; and Maria Mathalena b 1773) He was a very old father, but all these Hedrick men were.
One other possibility could be that she is granddaughter to a Hedrick male we have not found yet. Christopher may well have had a wife and children before he emigrated (at age 34) to USA, and we know of at least one child of he and his 1st or earlier wife had when he was 42 (earliest known bap date for children).
Regardless of her parentage, Mary Magdalena Catharine Hedrick married Michael Wolf and became the mother of his thirteen children.
(The top photo is a close-up of the tablet marker on the left in the second picture. On that tablet marker, Catharine Hedrick Wolf is the fourth name on the Territorial Period listing of burials in the Wolf Cemetery. It shows that her grave is unmarked. Photos courtesy of Glenn Luther.)
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