Christian Töpper [sic] & Dorothea Hoppe were married on 9 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Christian Töpfer [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Christ. Topffer [sic] and his wife Dorothea are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christian Töpfer and his wife Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
In 1783, widow Dorothea Töpfer née Braunsdorf left Boisroux to marry Heinrich Kempt in Kaneau. She took her son Christian with her.
Christian Depfer from Boisroux and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn08.
Christian Depfer (age 61) and his wife Dorothea (age 60) are recorded on the 1834 census of Kaneau in Household No. 21.
The death of Christian Depfer in 1841 is recorded on the 1850 census of Kaneau in Household No. 32.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Christian Töpfer came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Kaneau Census (Household No. 21).
- 1850 Kaneau Census (Household No. 32).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 558.
- 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): Kn08, Mv0300.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #933.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 141.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4371.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5155-5156.
Brent Mai