Caspar Wilhelm Tucksberg, son of Philipp Tucksberg, was baptized 24 April 1739 in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Schwelm.
On 31 October 1762 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schwelm, he married Anna Margaretha Rosendahl, daughter of Peter Johannes Rosendahl of Blombacherbach.
Anna Margaretha Rosendahl had been baptized in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lüttringhausen on 8 March 1739.
The baptisms of two children born to Caspar Wilhelm Tucksberg & Anna Margaretha Rosendahl are recorded in the parish register of Lüttringhausen: (1) Maria Gertrud, baptized 23 January 1763; and (2) Maria Catharina, baptized 1 July 1764, died 23 February 1766.
Kaspar Duxberg, a weaver (Leineweber), his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 4; Johann, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Caspar Duxberg and his wife Anna are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died en route.
Kaspar Wilhelm Duxberg, a linenweaver (Leineweber), and his [new] wife Elisabeth [Feldmann] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 56.
The widow of Wilhelm Duxberg from Cäsarsfeld is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka039 living with her son Johann Kornelius Duxberg.
The death of Kornelius Duxberger [sic] in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 57.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Wilhelm Duxberg came from the German village of Schwelm in the Brandenburg region.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 57).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Bx11, Ka039, Ka075, Ka121, Pl67.
- Parish register of Lüttringhausen (LDS Films #186077 and #186078).
- Parish register of the Lutheran Church in Schwelm (LDS Films #578281 and #572037).
- Parish register of the Reformed Church in Schwelm (LDS Film #575076).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4474.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4326-4327.
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