The baptisms of the following children born in Fauerbach vor der Höhe to Martinus & Anna Catharina Becker are recorded in the parish register of Münster: (1) Elisabetha, baptized 24 July 1744; (2) Anna Catharina, baptized 28 February 1747; (3) Martinus, baptized 23 August 1749; (4) Anna Juliana, baptized 6 April 1754; (5) Johannes, 12 May 1758; and (6) Anna Elisabetha, 6 November 1760.
Oldest daughter Anna Elisabeth Becker married on 21 May 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck to Christian Schmidt. [See Schmidt Family.]
Martin Bäcker, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 20; Martin, age 17½; Anna, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson along with their daughter Elisabeth and her husband Christian Schmidt.
Mathias Becker, his wife Anna Catharina, and children (Anna Cath., age 21; Martin, age 18; Juliana, age 14) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with their daughter Anna Elisabeth and her husband Christian Schmidt.
Martinus Bäcker, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Martinus, age 18; Anna, age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Susannental in Household No. 25. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Martinus Bäcker came from the German village of Fauerbach [vor der Höhe].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Becker family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): #157.
- Parish records of Münster (LDS Film No. 1269952) - including Fauerbach vor der Höhe.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 264.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3899.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5175-5181.
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