There are two Decher(t) families that settled in the Volga German colony of Müller. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Nicolaus Decher, son of Johannes & Anna Elisabeth Decher, was born 1 March 1739, baptized 4 March 1739 in Angenrod.
Eva Elisabetha Schmidt, daughter of Andreas & Anna Maria Schmidt, was born 3 December 1735, baptized 5 December 1735 in Zell.
Nicolaus Dechert from Angerode [Angenrod] in the district of Alsfeld & Eva Eliesabetha Schmidt from Zell in the district of Rumrod were married on 4 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Nikolaus Dechert, a farmer, and his wife Eva Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Dechert came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the region of Anjou [?].
(2) Johannes Decher, son of Johannes & Maria Decher, was baptized 8 September 1724 in Zell.
Anna Gertraud Schneider, daughter of Johann Heinrich & Maria Elisabetha Schneider, was born 13 June 1729 and baptized 15 June 1729 in Zell.
Johannes Decher married in Zell on 9 February 1747 to Anna Gertraud Schneider.
The baptisms of the following children born in Zell to Johannes Decher & Anna Gertraud Schneider are recorded in the parish register of Billertshausen: (1) Maria Elisabeth, born 1 January 1749, baptized 3 January 1749; (2) Catharina Elisabeth, born 26 June 1751, baptized 27 June 1751, died 27 November 1753, buried 28 November 1753; (3) Anna Gertraud, born 25 December 1753, baptized 27 December 1753; (4) Johann Georg, born 27 October 1756, baptized 28 October 1756; (5) Johann Conrad, born 24 August 1762, baptized 26 August 1762; and (6) Elisabeth, born 1 November 1765, baptized 3 November 1765.
Johann[es] Dechert, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 18; Gertrude, age 14; Johann, age 9; Konrad, age 4; Elisabeth, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Dechert came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Zell.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dechert family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32, 33.
- 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): Ml25, Ml36.
- 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): #477.
- Parish register of Billertshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 177, 179.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3626, #4871.
- Stumpp, Karl. The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1982): 124.
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