Georg Destein (age 23), a single farmer, is recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Georg Destein, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He and his [new] wife Anna Maria are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17.
The 1765 Worms list records that Georg Destein came from the German village of Lamperter Hütte [?]. The 1767 census records that Georg Destein came from the German village of Laudenbach [?] in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Destein family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129 (#410).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 114.
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