Franz Delzon [sic] and his wife Concordia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Frantz Delsop and his wife Conradin [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Conradin [sic] died en route.
Franz Delsop, a hatmaker (Hutmacher), his wife Regina [sic], and [step-]daughters (Christina [Raspe], age 15; Anna [Raspe], age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 72. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. [See Raspe Family.]
Franz Delsop, a hatmaker (Hutmacher), his wife Anna Maria née Hendel (widow Rasge [sic]), and step-daughter Johanna Christina Rasge [sic] (age 22) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 106 along with a note that Franz Delsop died in 1776. Also recorded on the Land Register is that step-daughter Johanna Christina Rasge [sic] married Johann Diesendorf and had two sons (Adam Johann, born 1777; Friedrich, born 1779).
Widow Christina Diesendorf née Delsop and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka071. [Delsop is actually her step-father's surname.] [See Diesendorf Family.]
The 1767 census records that Franz Delsop came from the village of Liège and that his wife came from the German village of Liepzig in Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 106).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 849.
- 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): Ka071.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 291.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6886.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4779-4800.
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