Catarina Elisabet. Diederich [sic], daughter of August Diederich & Bostilla Wolteriche, was baptized on 12 June 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
August Dietrich, a button maker (Knopfmacher), his wife Butila?, and children (Edith, age 6; Katharina, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Frank on 1 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No 106.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that August Dietrich came from the Prussian village of Königsberg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 343.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1332.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 437.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2564.
Brent Mai