Dittenber (Warenburg)*
Friedrich Dittenber, a wool carder (Wollschläger), his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann Michael, age 17; Elisabeth Katharina, age 16; Katharina, age 11, Anton, age 6½; Dorothea, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 165.
Anton Dittenber is recorded on the 1798 census of Merkel in Household No. Mr20.
The death of Anton Dittenber in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 Census of Merkel in Household No. 74. With his death, there are no further male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Dittenber came from the German village of Offenbach in the Isenburg region.
- 1834 Merkel Census (Household No. 74).
- 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): Mr20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 346.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2222.
Brent Mai