Spelling Variations
Becher (Katharinenstadt)*
Бехеръ (Katharinenstadt)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Widower Konrad Becher, a carpenter (Zimmermann), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 231.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Becher came from the German region of Bayreuth.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Becher family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 322.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai