Michael Dedzor, a farmer, his wife Kunigunda, and daughter Katharina (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Michael Detzer [sic], his wife Cunigunda, and daughter Catharina (age 2¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Catharina died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Dedzor came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Michael Dedzor came from the German village of Kersbach in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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