Joseph Hecht & Catharina Meseler were married on 24 June 1765 in Roßlau.
Joseph Hecht, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 16 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.
Joseph Hecht and his [new] wife Elisabeth Hunger née Katzmann are recorded on the 1798 census of Mariental in Household No. Mt44.
The widow of Johann Hecht, presumed son of Joseph Hecht, from Mariental is recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg22 along with her son.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Hecht came from the German region of Regensburg.
- 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): Mt44, Rl17, Zg22.
- 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): #869.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 96.
Brent Mai