Dibinaus*

Peter Dibinaus, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Katharina, age 5; Margaretha, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.

Peter Diebenau [sic], his wife Anna Margreta, and daughters (Catrina Dorothea, age 9; Margreta Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the mother Anna Margareta and daughter Margreta Elisabeth died en route.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 19 August 1767. Peter and his daughter are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 72.

The 1767 census records that Peter Dibinaus came from the German village of Rostock in the Mecklenburg region.

There are no known suviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.