Becker

Anton Becker was baptized in Ronshausen on 3 Nov 1705, the son of Johann Geörg Becker (1671-1740) from Ronshausen and Christina Herwig (born 1674) from Weiterode. Anton was confirmed in 1719. 

Anton married Anna Barbara Bachman, the daughter of Johannes Bachman from Wölfershausen, in Ronshausen on 15 August 1728. Anton and Anna Barbara had six known children in Ronshausen before she died in Ronshausen on 28 July 1761.

1. Johann George, baptized 4 September 1729
2. Anna Christina, baptized 29 September 1731
3. Johann Christoph, born 17 February 1734 and baptized 19 February 1734
4. Johannes, born 27 April 1736 and baptized 30 April 1736
5. Anna Barbara, born 18 February 1739, baptized on 20 February 1739, buried on 9 December 1739
6. Anna Catharina, born 29 October 1740 and baptized on 1 November 1740

Johann George Becker married Elisabetha Wingold, the daughter of Caspar Georg Wingold from Pferdsdorf, on 19 April 1751. Johann Görge and Elisabetha had four children in Ronshausen: 

1. Johannes, born 11 May 1752, baptized 13 May 1752
2. Johann Christoph, born 1 September, baptized 4 September 1757
3. Elisabeth, born 24 November 1761, baptized 26 Nov 1761
4. Philipp, born 16 June 1763, baptized 19 June 1763

Anna Christina married Johannes Eisel from nearby Herfa on 4 April 1762 in Ronshausen. Two children were baptized in Ronshausen: 

1. Joachim, baptized 23 August 1762
2. Anna Elisabeth, born 1 April 1765, baptized 4 April 1765

Anna Catharina married Johann George Eisel from Herfa on 8 July 1765 in Ronshausen. He is the brother of Johannes Eisel, the husband of Anna Christina Becker. They had two children before they were married:

1. Johann Heinrich, baptized 17 September 1762
2. Catharina Elisabeth, baptized 15 February 1764

Anton, along with his children, Johann Georg, Anna Christina, and Anna Catharina, and their families, decided to become Russian colonists in 1766. They traveled to the gathering place for colonists in Büdingen, where Anton married his second wife, Maria Catharina, in Büdingen on 11 May 1766. She was the widow of an unknown Peuscher. The group from Ronshausen was traveling with a young man named Johann Wilhelm Schreiber, also from Ronshausen. It appears that he was too young to have obtained permission to leave Ronshausen and that he posed as a member of the Becker family until he reached the settlement place in Russia.

Anton, along with his son, George Becker, and his wife, Elisabeth, and their children, Johannes and Elisabeth, arrived in Russia on 19 July 1766.

All six family members settled in Norka and are listed as Households No. 159 and No. 160 in the 1767 census. 

Anthon's second wife, Maria Catharina, died sometime after the census was taken. Anthon married again to Anna Maria Kloberdanz. 

By the time of the 1798 Census, Anton had died, and his third wife, Anna Maria, had 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 had 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 his son, Georg Friedrich, and their families moved to Brunnental in 1862.