Christina Encke, the daughter of Claus Encke, was born 7 October 1725 in Gelting, Denmark [today located in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border].
She first married an unknown Rübler, and they had a son Friedrich who was born about 1750.
Christina Encke then married Andreas Tiefenthaler [see Tiefenthaler Family]. He was killed in a brawl in 1762. Christina then married Theobald Wagner [see Wagner Family], and they immigrated to Russia.
Theobold Wagner, a farmer, his wife Christina [widow Tiefenthaler], [step-]children (Anna Elisabeth [Tiefenthaler], age 18; Friedrich [Riebler], age 17; Anna Margaretha [Tiefenthaler], age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 9. They had arrived in Moor on 1 July 1766.
Friedrich Rübler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo27.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Encke family among the Volga German colonies.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-267, B-1741.
- 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): Mo27.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #753.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 157.
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