Johann Georg Benker [sic], a merchant (Kaufmann), his wife Maria, and daughter Maria (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Johann Georg Becker, a merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Maria Ottilia settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Benker [sic] came from the German region of Ansbach. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Becker came from the German village of Dernduf [?] in the Ansbach region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Becker family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 292.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 333.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2137.
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