Beck (Beideck)*
Kaspar [sic] Bernhard Beck, a sexton, his wife Dorothea Margaretha, and children (Johann Christian & Dorothea Margaretha) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard the Russian packet-boat named Lebed (Swan) under the command of Lieutenant Timofey Yelchin.
Karl [sic] Bernhard Beck, his wife Dorothea Margaretha, and son Johann (age 14) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Supplement No. 2. A note on the 1775 census records that he was being paid a salary as a box maker.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where this Beck family came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Beck family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Supplement No. 2).
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2686.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Kaspar [sic] Bernhard Beck and his family (#2686).
Source: Brent Mai.