Dietrich Bister, a baker, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Dittrich [sic] Wilhelm Bister, his wife Elisabetha, and newborn daughter Magdalena Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that baby Magdalena Elisabeth also died in route.
It is not known in which colony this family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Dietrich Bister came from the German region of Wezel [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4698.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3316-3318.
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