David Becker

1748 - Bef 1798  (< 49 years)

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• Name	David Becker  [1, 2]
  Birth	1745	Berghausen, Braunfels, Hesse, Germany   [1]
  	place of origin
  Born	7 Apr 1748	Berghausen, Braunfels, Hesse, Germany   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Berghausen, Braunfels, Hesse, Germany   [3]
  Arrival	8 Aug 1766	Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg, Russia   [4]
  Residence	1767	Kukkus, Samara, Russia   [1]
  	HH31
  Arrival	26 Jun 1767	Kukkus, Samara, Russia   [1]
  Reference Number	9372
  Died	Bef 1798  [5]
  Person ID	I9372	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Johann Bernhard Becker,   b. 25 Feb 1714, Berghausen, Braunfels, Hesse, Germany ,   d. 5 Feb 1760, Berghausen, Braunfels, Hesse, Germany  (Age 45 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anna Marie Unknown,   b. 1727
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2743	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Maria Steckenmesser,   b. 1746
  Married	Y  [6]
  Children	+ 1. Anna Margareta Becker,   b. 1770  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F2777	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Farmer from Berghausen, Braunfels, Germany. Son of the widow of Bernhardt Becker. There are three Becker families on the Kukkus First Settlers List (David, Balthasar and Johann Adam). All three originate from Berghausen, Solms-Braunfels Principality, Hessen, Germany. From information in the Solms-Braunfels Archives we know that David is the son of Bernhardt Becker, but the other Beckers are not mentioned in that document. Birthdates for the three are 1743, 1745 and 1747. Information from the Ortsfamilienbuch of Werdorf, Braunfels shows that the three above mentioned Kukkus immigrants are indeed all children of Johann Bernhard Becker. Unfortunately, the mothers name is not listed. Name David Becker of Berghausen appears in Solms-Braunfels Archives as asking to emigrate to Volga Russia in 1766. It is also mentioned that he is the son of Bernhardt Becker. The other two Beckers are not mentioned in those archives. All three Becker families in Kukkus are from Berghausen, the same town in Braunfels. David and Balzer are in the same family group on the transport List. Johann Adam does not appear on the transport list (It is not complete). Marquadt & Mai #344: David Becker from Berghausen in the area of Gräfenstein & Anna Maria Steckenmeister from Allendorff in the area of Gräfenstein, married 17 May 1766 in Friedburg. 1766 Kuhlberg List #3551 David Becker The Luebeck Ship, Skipper Wiebe Heinrichson 8 Aug 1766 Ref, farmer from Braunfels Wife: Margaretha 1766-1767 Transport Lists #451 David Becker, ref Wife: Anna Margreta 1767 Kukkus First Settler List #31 Age 22, ref, farmer from Berghausen, Braunfels Wife: Katharina Elisabeth 21 Daughter: Anna Margaretha 2 weeks The wife of David Becker b. 1745-1748 is listed on four different documents as Margaretha (in 1766), Anna Margaretha (in 1767), as Katharina Elisabeth (in 1767) and is Margaretha in 1798 as the widow of David Becker. If the 1767 document was incorrect we could assume that Anna Margaretha was his only wife. Otherwise we would have to assume multiple wives to make sense of this. The church book of Werdorf identifies has wife as Anna Maria Steckenmesser of Allendorf. According to Marquadt & Mai #344: David Becker from Berghausen in the area of Gräfenstein & Anna Maria Steckenmeister from Allendorff in the area of Gräfenstein, married 17 May 1766 in Friedburg. For now we are assuming that Anna Maria and Anna Margaretha are the same person and that the listing of Katharina Elisabeth is a mistake. To assume otherwise would imply the existence of 4 different wives, 2 named Margaretha, one Katharina Elisabeth and one named Anna Maria.

  
  

• Sources

  [S275] Einwanderung in das Wolgagebeit 1764-1767 Band 2 Kolonien Galka-Kutter, Igor Pleve, (Name: Der Gottinger Arbeitskreis; Location: 37085 Gottingen, Germany; Date: 2001;). [S277] Ortsfamilienbuch Werdorf, Braunfels, Germany. [S843] Kukkus, A German Village on the Volga, Betty Engel Muradian, (Name: Fresno Chapter of the AHSGR; Location: Fresno, California, USA;). Information found in the Solms-Braunfels Archives from 1766 [S287] List of colonists to Russia in 1766-Reports by Ivan Kuhlberg, Igor Pleve, (Name: Saratov State Technical University; Location: Saratov, Russia; Date: 2010;). [S255] 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga-Volume 1 & 2, Brent Alan Mai, (Name: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR); Location: Lincoln, Nebraska; Date: 1999;), Kukkus, Russia 1798 Census P641-647 as of 2 August 1798. [S276] German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) Origins and Destinations, Dona Reeves-Marquardt & Brent Alan Mai, (Name: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR); Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Date: 2003;), #344.