Derillion*
Johann Ludwig Derillion (age 47), a farmer, his wife Anna Maria Theresia (age 33), and children (Johann Adam, age 12; Michael, age 5; Anna Maria, age 1½; Christina Carolina, age ¼) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 12 June 1762.
They deserted the Danish colonies on 27 April 1765 and joined the migration to Russia.
Ludwig Derillion, a farmer, his [new] wife Rosina, children (Johann Adam, age 16; Michael, age 8½; Anna Maria, age 5), and [step-children] (Georg [Wiesner], age 21; Valentin [Wiesner], age 15; Ottilia [Wiesner], age 11; Maria Margaretha [Wiesner], age 8; Maria Barbara [Wiesner], age 5; Johann Ludwig [Wiesner], age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 32. They had arrived in Kamenka on 28 April 1766.
In 1793, Ludwig Derillion and his family moved from Kamenka to Franzosen.
The Eichhorn research reports that the Derillion family came from the Markgrafschaft Baden-Durlach. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Derillion came from the German village of Falkenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1681.
- 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): Fz18; Fz30; Mv1108.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 223.
Brent Mai