Peter Becking was the father of Ambrosius Becking, a day-laborer (Tagelöhner). Ambrosius, his wife Margaretha Kümmeling, and his sisters (Maria Abelona & Anna Margaretha) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving in Flensburg on 9 June 1762.
They are last recorded in Denmark on 18 February 1765.
They joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 21 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
There are Becking families from Dönhof in Neu-Bauer after 1858.
Both the Eichhorns and the 1767 census record that Peter Becking came from the German region of Kurpfalz.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-192.
- Lauk, Emma & Mina Wiens. Familienchronik von Neu-Bauer, 1858-1941: Von Gründung bis Deportation (Schweinfurt / Bankenburg, 2023): 80-83.
- 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): Dh028.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 350.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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