Johann Dehn, his wife Eva, and children (Peter, age 6½; Barbara, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Johannes Dehn, his wife Eva, and children (Peter, age 6; Barbara, age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Barbara died en route.
Johannes Dein, a farmer, his wife Eva, and son Peter (age 7) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 28 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
Johanna Maria Dein née Schamberg, believed to be the widow of son Peter Dening, and her child Johann Georg Dein (age 5) and stepdaughters (Katharina Dein, age 16; Anna Maria Dein, age 11) are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm47.
Georg Dein and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Wittmann in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Dein came from the German village of Horot [Hoort?].
- 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): Wm47.
- Oranienbaum passenger list: #6683 [not recorded in the Kuhlberg list published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 268.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3785-3788.
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