The parish register of St. Aureus & Justina Catholic Church in Bommersheim records the marriage of Wendelin Becker (born in 1692) & Maria Elisabethz Kretzlinger (born in 1694) on 1 November 1734.
The parish register of St. Aureus & Justina Catholic Church in Bommersheim records the birth of the following children born to Wendelin Becker & Maria Elisabetha Kretzlinger: (1) Bartholomaeus, born 5 March 1735; (2) Johannes Jakob, born 21 November 1736; (3) Wendelin, born 3 March 1740, died 10 February 1742; (4) Magdalena, born 26 January 1746.
Jakob Bäcker, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Jakob Bäcker, a farmer, and his wife, Katharina, arrived in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Bäcker came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Jakob Bäcker came from the German village of Bommersheim in the Kurmainz.
There are no know surviving male lines of this Bäcker family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 93.
- Parish register of St. Aureus & Justina Catholic Church in Bommersheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 414.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #414.
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