Kaspar Beck, a single tailor (Schneider), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Kaspar Beck, a single tailor (Schneider), settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 censusin Household No. 26.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Beck came from the German region of Wertheim. The 1767 census records that Kaspar Beck came from the German village of Kröttenbach in the Löwenstein region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Beck family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 80.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 423.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #294.
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