The parish register of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lübeck records that Johann Christian Beckmann married on 26 May 1766 to Anna Margaretha Hederich.
Christian Beckmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]daughters (Katharina [Heinrich], age 12; Maria [Heinrich], age 10; Johannetta [Heinrich], age 8; Margaretha [Heinrich], age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Christian Beckmann, his wife Anna Maria, and [step-]daughters (Catharina Elisab. [Heinrich], age 12; Johannetta [Heinrich], age 10¼; Christina [Heinrich], age 8; Maria Margareta [Heinrich], age 5¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christian Bergmann [sic], a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 7 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55 along with their 1-week-old son Konrad. His step-daughters (Christina Heinrich, age 14; Katharina Heinrich, age 12; Maria Heinrich, age 10; Margaretha Heinrich, age 7) are recorded in the following Household No. 56.
In 1788, Konrad Beckmann moved from Paulskaya to Nieder-Monjou and Philipp Beckmann moved from Paulskaya to Krasnoyar.
In 1789, Philipp Beckmann moved from Fischer to Krasnoyar.
In 1791, Konrad Beckmann moved from Fischer to Nieder-Monjou.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Beckmann came from the German region of Burg [?]. The 1767 census records that Christian Bergmann [sic] came from the German village of Brücken in the Dessau region.
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Brent Mai