Johann Friedrich Beck & Christiana Auguste Hintze were married on 9 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Friedrich Beck, a farmer, his wife Christina, and mother-in-law Magdalena [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Johann Friedrich Beck, his wife Christina, and mother-in-law Maria Hintz [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Maria Hintz died en route.
Johann Friedrich Beck, a mason (Maurer), and his wife Christina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 74.
Friedrich Beck is recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt02.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Beck came from the German region of Wittenberg [Württemberg?]. The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Beck came from the German village of Hoschwelt [?] in the Wittenberg [Württemberg?] region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 564.
- 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): Bt02.
- 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): #923.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 365.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4446.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5105-5107.
Brent Mai