Johann Jacob Becker was baptized on 24 September 1730 in Sankt Alban near Falkenstein.
Anna Magdalena Bender was baptized in Sankt Alban on 19 May 1737.
The marriage of Johann Jacob Becker & Anna Magdalena Bender is recorded in the parish register of Sankt Alban on 2 March 1756.
Jakob Becker, a farmer, his wife Anna [Magdalena], and daughters (Anna, age 8; Barbara, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Jakob Becker, a farmer, his wife [Anna] Magdalena, and daughter Barbara (age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kolb in Household No. 10. They had arrived in Kolb on 13 May 1767.
Jakob Becker and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kolb in Households No. Ko33 & Ko34.
Andreas Becker, son of Jakob Becker, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kolb in Household No. 109.
Adam Becker, son of Jakob Becker, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kolb in Household No. 86.
The death of Adam Becker in 1854 is recorded on the 1857 census of Kolb in Household No. 106.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Becker came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the Village of Sankt-Thomas near Falkenstein.
- 1834 Kolb Census (Households No. 86, 109).
- 1857 Kolb Census (Household No. 106).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 158.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ko33, Ko34.
- Parish records of Sankt Alban (LDS Film #193160).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 388.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #992.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0406.
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Record from the Sankt Alban church showing Jacob Becker's baptism 24 September 1730.
Record from the Sankt Alban church: Jacob Becker and Anna Magdalena Bender married on 2 March 1756.