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Dick (Biberstein)

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Dick (Biberstein)
Dück (Biberstein)
Дикъ (Biberstein)
Дюкъ (Biberstein)
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Discussion & Documentation

Johann Georg Dick and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Idt & Rauschenbach record that this is the same family that is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard.

Johannes Dick, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Barbara are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 9 along with a note that they resettled in the Volga German colony of Biberstein in 1768.

Anna Barbara Dick, widow of Johann[es] Dick, and their children are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb41.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Dick came from the German village of Weener.

Sources

- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 848.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bb41.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6871 [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 196.

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Brent Mai

Volga Colonies