Johann Heinrich Beckmann, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Christina, age 14; Maria Elisabeth, age 9; Johann Heinrich, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Johannes Imherr, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and [step-]children (Christina [Beckmann], age 15; Elisabeth [Beckmann], age 9; Heinrich [Beckmann], age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 62. They had settled there on 21 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Beckmann came from the German region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Beckmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 488.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 228.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3825.
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