Johann Heinrich Böcher from Lauter married on 16 September 1732 to Elisabetha Velten.
The parish register of Queckenborn records the baptism of twins to Johann Heinrich Böcher & Elisabetha Velten: (1) Jost Conrad & (2) Johann Conrad, born 24 December 1747 in Lauter, baptized 26 December 1747.
(1) Jost Conrad Böcher from Queckborn & Eliesabetha [sic] Rühl from Villingen were married 27 May 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Konrad Becker, a farmer, and his wife Anna Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
Konrad Becker (age 21), a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Magdalena (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 71.
Konrad Becker and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. 71.
The death of Konrad Becker in 1811 is recorded on the 1811 census of Frank in Household No. 71.
(2) Johann Becker, a farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau. [There is also a Johann Becker, a single farmer, who arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.]
Johannes Becker (age 27 [sic]), a single craftsman (Handwerker), is recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 72 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Krasnoyar in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list record that both Johann Becker and Konrad Becker came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census of Frank records that both Konrad and Johannes came from the German village of Lauter in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.
- 1811 Frank Census (Household No. 71).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 714, 759, 763.
- 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): Fk071.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #669.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Queckenborn.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 430.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5708, #6072, #6105.
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