There are four different Becker families who settled originally in the Volga German colony of Walter.
Johann Konrad Becker, a single 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.
This is presumed to be the same Konrad Becker (age 20), a farmer, who is recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 90 along with his uncle Philipp Stang who had arrived in Oranienbaum on the same ship.
Konrad Becker and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt062.
The death of Konrad Becker in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Walter in Household No. 53.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Becker came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census of Walter records that Konrad Becher [sic] came from the German village of Lautern in the region of Hessen-Darmstadt.
- 1834 Walter Census (Household No. 53).
- 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): 758.
- 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): Wt062.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008): 315.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6066.
Brent Mai