Biedenkopf
Spelling Variations:
Biedenkopf
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Peter Biedenkopf, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
The 1767 census records that the Biedenkopf family came from the German village of Wildensee near Erbach.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 305.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6473.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai