Anton Beichert, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leichtling on 14 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
The widow of Anton Beichert and his son Johannes are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg38.
The death of Johannes Beichard [sic] in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Leichtling in Household No. 93.
The 1767 census records that Anton Beichert is from the German village of Miltenberg in the region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Beichert family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Leichtling Census (Household No. 93).
- 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): Lg38.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 59.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1047.
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