Spelling Variations
Becker (Ernestinendorf-2)
Бекеръ (Ernestinendorf-2)
Bäcker (Ernestinendorf-2)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Jakob Becker, a farmer, his wife Maria, and sons (Johann Martin, age 14; Justus, age 7) settled in the Volga German colony of Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1.
The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Becker came from the German village of Oberkleen.
Sources
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Er02.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 395.
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Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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