Anton Becker is described as a widower from Ronshausen when he marries the widow Maria Catharina Peuscher on 11 May 1766 in Büdingen. Anton's family can be traced back to the 1600s in Ronshausen, and to the nearby towns of Weiterode and Wölfershausen in Hessen, and Pferdsdorf in Thuringia.
Anton was baptized in Ronshausen on 3 Nov 1705, the son of Geörg Becker from Ronshausen and Christina Herwig from Weiterode. Anton married Anna Barbara Bachman, the daughter of Johannes Bachman from Wölfershausen, in Ronshausen on 15 August 1728. Anna Barbara died in Ronshausen on 28 July 1761.
Among Anton and Anna Barbara's children was Johann Görge Becker, baptized 4 September 1729. Johann Görge Becker married Elisabetha Wingold, the daughter of Caspar George Wingold from Pferdsdorf, on 19 April 1751. Johann Görge and Elisabetha had four children children in Ronshausen: Johannes, baptized 11 May 1752; Johann Christoph, born 1 September, baptized 4 September 1757; Elisabeth, baptized 24 Nov 1761; and Philipp, born 16 June, baptized 19 June 1763.
Georg Becker, his wife Elisabeth, and their children Johann and Elisabeth, along with Anton and his wife Catharina, arrived in Russia on 19 July 1766.
All six family members settled in Norka and are listed as Households #159 and #160 in the 1767 census.
By the time of the 1798 Census, Anton has died and his third wife Anna Maria has remarried. Her household includes two sons of Anton Becker: Anton, age 25 in 1798, and Johann Heinrich, age 21 in 1798.
The 1811 Census of Kolb states that Heinrich Becker, age 34 in 1811, had moved to Kolb from Norka in 1808 and has a son named Philip, age 3 in 1811. The Norka 1811 Census also notes that Heinrich Becker moved to Kolb.
Philip Becker's sons Johann Friedrich, Heinrich Michael, and Georg Michael, and their families, moved from Kolb to Brunnental in 1859. Philip and son Georg Friedrich and their families moved to Brunnental in 1862.
- Parish records of Büdingen, Wetteraukreis, Hessen on Archion.de
- Parish records of Ronshausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hessen on Archion.de
- Parish records of Weiterode, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hessen on Archion.de
- Online Ortsfamilienbuch for Wölfershausen on Genealogy.net
- Parish records of Pferdsdorf, Dermbach, Thuringia on Archion.de
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- Hein, Maggie, translator. Brunnental, Russia Communion Register (1870-1884) Volume 1 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2020), Households #38 and #39
- Hein, Maggie, translator. Brunnental, Russia Communion Register (1870-1884) Volume 2 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2018), Household #155
