Philipp Dittor, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Philipp died during the transport from Oranienbaum to the Volga region in a group led by Lieutenant Dunkel. Anna Margaretha (recorded as the widow of Nikolaus Dittor) settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49.
The 1767 census records that Anna Margaretha Dittor came from the German village of Denckschön in the region of Ansbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 277.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3426.
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