Dehler (Leichtling)
Franz Anton Dehler and his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Lopamink under the command of Lieutenant Kryukov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 12 May 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 4.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Anton Dehler was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he is a mason (Maurer). The 1767 census records that Franz Anton Dehler came from the Bamberg region.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 64.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #389.
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