Johannes Leyck [sic] (age 42), a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Margaretha Schmid (age 38), and children (Anna Catharina, age 11; Anna Maria, age 11; Anna Maria, age 9; Johann Martin, age 6; Bartholomeus, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Johannes Leick, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 13; Anna Margaretha, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 35. They had settled there on 1 May 1767.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johannes Leyck [sic] came from the German village of Kichheim. The 1767 census records that Johannes Leick came from the German village of Alzey in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Leick family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129 (#436-441).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 117.
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