Dick (Biberstein)
Spelling Variations:
Dick (Biberstein)
Дикъ (Biberstein)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johannes Dick, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Barbara are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 9 along with a note that they resettled in the Volga German colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Dick came from the German village of Weener.
Sources:
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bb41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 196.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai