Bickelhaupt / Pickelhaupt

Johann Henrich Bickelhaupt, son of Jakob Bickelhaupt & Magdalena Blumenschein, was born 15 September 1719 in Ober-Gersprenz. He married on 31 March 1756 in Gronau to Elisabetha Catharina Burger, daughter of Johann Adam Burger & Anna Catharina Falkenstein and widow of Johann Philipp Meid. Elisabetha Catharina Burger had been born 14 November 1727 in Mittershausen. [See Burger Family.]

The baptisms of two children born to Johann Heinrich Bickelhaub & Elisabetha Catharina Burger are recorded in the parish register of Gronau: (1) Johann Dieterich Bickelhaub, born 6 February 1756; (2) Sophia Margaretha, born 10 May 1759.

Johann Heinrich Bickelhaub died, and Elisabetha Catharina Bickelhaub née Burger remarried on 27 May 1766 in Gronau to Johann Georg Albert, son of Johann Peter Albert & Margaretha Heß. Johann Georg Albert had been born in Gronau on 17 May 1744.

Johann Albert, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 10; Sophia, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Peter Albert, his wife Elisabeth, and [step-]children (Diedrich [Pickelhaupt], age 12; Margaretha [Pickelhaupt], age 10) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

The combined Albert / Bickelhaub family are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 112. The two Bickelhaub children are recorded there in error under the surname Burger - their mother's maiden name.

Dieterich Pickelhaupt is recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household Kd09, his sister in Household Kd17, and their once again widowed mother in Household Kd18.

The spelling of this surname is also recorded in Gronau and Reichelsheim (where his father was born) as Beckelhaupt and Buckelhaupt. In the United States, the family has also used Pickelhaupt.