Widow Katharina Dickmann and her children (Philipp, age 21; Anna, age 13; Johann, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Philipp Dickmann, a farmer, his [new] wife Christina, his mother Anna Katharina (age 56), and his siblings (Anna Maria, age 15; Johann Heinrich, age 13) settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 60.
Christina Dickmann, widow of Philipp Dickmann, and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms67.
Heinrich Dickmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms39.
The death of widower Heinrich Dickmann in 1824 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kutter in Household No. 49.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Katharina Dickmann came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Philipp Dickmann came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dickmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Kutter Census (Household No. 49).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 247.
- 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): Ms39, Ms67, Ms81.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 145.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1762.
Brent Mai