Johann Michael Dieder, son of Friedrich Dieder & Anna Christina Hedwig, was born 18 October 1752 in Schönberg.
Friedrich Dieter (age 52), his unnamed wife, and three unnamed children immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Fridericia on 1 May 1760. They settled in the Danish colony of Friderichsnaade. They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763.
Friedrich Diether [sic] (age 55), a farmer, his wife Christina Marckelbach, and children (Maria Anna, age 18; Johann Michael, age 13; Johann Balthasar, age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 2 September 1765.
The members of this family have not been located on the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
Michael Dieter from Beauregard and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg13.
The death of Michael Detter [sic] in 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Zug in Household No. 15.
The 1765 Worms list records that Friedrich Diether [sic] came from the German village of Schönberg. The Eichhorns record that Friedrich Dieter came from the Grafschaft Erbach, Amt Schönberg.
- 1834 Zug Census (Household No. 15).
- 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-272.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 119 (#159-163).
- 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): Zg13.
- Parish register of Schönberg.
Brent Mai
v.rau (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum)
Entry from the parish register of Schönberg recording the birth of Johann Michael Dieder on 18 October 1752.
Source: v.rau (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum).