Eva Katharina [Beck], servant of Johann Schmeltzer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Cathrina [sic] Beck is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with the Johann Schmeltzer family.
Johann Schmilzer [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina [Beck] (age 20), and daughter Katharina (age 3) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 4.
Johann Schmeltzer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz16.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Beck family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4611.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5916-5919, #5922.
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