Abraham Dietrich, his wife Anna, and daughters (Maria, age 16; Maria [again], age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Abraham Dietrich, a turner, his wife Anna, and daughters (Magdalena, age 17; Maragaretha, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 70 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Schönchen in 1768. They had settled in Ober-Monjou on 17 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Abraham Dietrich came from the German village of Ukirchen [Umkirch?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dietrich family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 858.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 305.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6958.
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