William Derick II was born on 9 December 1805, the son of Christopher Derick (1782-1871) and Margaret Struthers (1786-1869). He worked as a shoemaker in Noyan. William II married Electa Pamelia Hawley (1813-1895) in 1835 in Clarenceville (Missisquoi County). Together they had six children: Lucy Hurd (b.1836), Isabelle (b. 1837), Asahel Hawley (b. 1838), Thomas Harvard (b. 1841), Christopher William (b. 1845), Anna/Annie Eliza (1851-ca. 1869). William II died on 7 July 1890 in Lacolle, Quebec.