There are two Leidecker families that settled in the Volga German colony of Chasselois on 2 August 1766. Their relationship is not recorded but they are believed to be father and son.
(1) Christoph Leidecker (age 48), a farmer, and his family are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.
(2) Johann Leidecker (age 28), a farmer, and his wife Susanna are recorded on the 1767 census of Chasselois in Household No. 33.
The widow of Johannes Leidecker and their son (Johannes, age 15) are recorded on the 1798 census of Graf in Household No. Gf11.
Johannes Leidecker and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Graf in Household No. 36.
The 1767 census records that both Christoph and Johann Leidecker came from the German region of Zweibrücken.
[Some translations record this surname as Leindecker.]
- 1834 Graf Census (Household No. 36).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 847.
- 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): Gf11.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 258.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6862.
Brent Mai