Johann Georg Ditschler, son of Johannes & Anna Elisabetha Ditschler, was born in Zell and baptized 8 August 1739.
Johann Georg Ditschler married on 25 November 1762 to Maria Elisabetha Henckel, daughter of Johann Peter Henckel from Zell.
The baptism of one child born to Johann Georg Ditschler and Maria Elisabetha Henckel has been located: Anna Elisabetha, born 4 January 1765, baptized 6 January 1765.
Georg Tischler, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughters (Anna [Maria], age 4; [Anna] Elisabeth, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767. Georg Tischler, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 6; Anna Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 14.
Widower Johannes Tischler and his daughter and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml27.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Tischler came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Zell.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- 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): Ml01, Ml27, Sp02, Sp23.
- Parish register of Billertshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 178.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3636.
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