Peter Heÿdecker & Elisabeth Krüger were married 2 September 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Peter Heidecker, a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 17 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 149.
The 1767 census records that Peter Heidecker came from Luxembourg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heidecker family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #125.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 308.
Brent Mai
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