Peter Heÿdecker & Elisabeth Krüger were married 2 September 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Peter Heidecker, a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), and his [new] wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 17 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 149.
Peter Heidecker (age 37), a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), his wife Anna Maria née Paul (age 38), and daughter Johanna Elisabeth (age 7) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 37 along with note that Peter Heidecker died in 1779. The Land Register also records that his wife remarried to Elias Happe in 1779 and then died in 1782. [See Happe Family.]
The 1767 census records that Peter Heidecker came from Luxembourg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that both Peter Heidecker and his wife Anna Maria née Paul came from Luxembourg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heidecker family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 37).
- 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): #125.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 308.
Brent Mai