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.
- 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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