Christian Dudhort [sic], his Margaretha, and sons (Georg, age 17¾; Hans, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Christian Diethorn, his wife Margaretha, and sons (Johann Gregorius, age 16; Georg, age 13) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Margaretha died in route.
Christian Diethorn, his [new] wife Katharina, and son Hans Georg (age 15) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 34 along with his stepson Friedrich König (age 3). [See König Family.]
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Christian Diethorn came from the German region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Diethorn family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 837.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6738 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 202.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6979-6982.
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