Johannes Dornhecker [sic] from Altenmittlau, son of the deceased Peter Dornhecker, married in Somborn on 1 June 1755 to Anna Maria Catharina Braun, daughter of Johann Wolfgang Christoph Braun from Neustadt on der Saale.
The baptism of several children born in Altenmittlau to Johannes Dorndecker & Catharina Braun are recorded in the parish register of Somborn: (1) Maria Anna, baptized 24 July 1757; (2) Sybilla, baptized 2 February 1761; and (3) Matthias, baptized 12 September 1763, died 1 March 1764.
Catharina Dorndecker née Braun died 23 September 1763. The widowed Johannes Dornhecker remarried on on 25 February 1764 to Elisabetha Sommer from Gailbach.
The baptism of a daughter born to Johannes Dorndecker & Elisabetha Sommer is recorded in the parish register of Somborn: (1) Gertrud, baptized 22 March 1765, died 16 April 1765.
Johann[es] Dorndecker, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughters (Maria, age 9; Sibilla, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johannes Dorndecker, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughters (Maria Anna, age 12; Sibilla, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 80. They had settled in Kamenka on 20 June 1767.
The 1775 census of Kamenka records Johannes Dorndecker in Household No. 63 along with his [new] wife Margaretha and her children from a previous marriage (Peter Fischbach, age 8; Johannes Fischbach, age 5; Christina Fischbach, age 3). [See Fischbach Family.]
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Dorndecker came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dorndecker family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Kamenka Census (Household No. 63).
- Horst, Irma. "Kommissarius Johann Facius und seine Kolonisten," Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Russland 2020 (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 2020), 259-265.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29, 215.
- Parish register of St. Anna in Somborn (including Altenmittlau).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 236.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1705.
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