Joachim Eberhard Delkmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann [Michael], age 20; Sophia, age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
Widower Delkmann and his children are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt (No. 22).
They settled in the Volga German colony of Basel where son Michael is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Bs12.
Michael's death in Basel in 1820 is recorded on the 1834 census in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that Joachim Eberhard Delkmann came from the German village of Rintein [Rinteln?].
- 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): Bs12.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 328.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6988.
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