The Deichert family came to Krasna from Neckarau (Mannheim) via South Prussia.
The emigrant couple was Nicolaus Deichert * 1769 and Margaretha Striehl * 20 Dec 1777
They had married on January 07, 1802 in Mannheim, Baden. Nicolaus' exact date of birth, his place of birth and his parents have not yet been determined.
South Prussia was a province of the State of Prussia from 1793 to 1807. It comprised the territories of the historical regions of Greater Poland and Mazovia, which had been annexed by Prussia with the Second Partition of Poland. During the Prussian administration, the Prussian authorities carried out targeted settlements.
The Deichert family probably began their migration to South Prussia soon after their marriage in 1802. In the "Spezial- u. Generallisten der nach Südpreußen eingewanderten Reichskolonisten 1802/4"1 we find Nikolaus Deichert 33 years; wife Margaretha 22 years, daughter Anna Barbara 1 year (* 9 Apr. 1801) from Neckarau, should be settled in the dep. Warsaw.
This also happened, as can be read in the Altpreußische Geschlechterkunde2:
Deychert, Johann Nicolaus, 2 persons, from the Palatinate lived in the year 1803 in the colony Ilvesheim, Intendantur Piaseczno (Amt Lesznawola).
As the family there is said to have consisted of only two people, his daughter Anna Barbara probably died on the journey to Poland or shortly after arriving there.
The family probably did not stay in Ilvesheim, as they are recorded as missing in 1806.
We find her later in Piaseczno, because Anna Maria Taychert * 1813 (the exact date of birth is not legible) appears in the church register there; parents Nikolaus Taychert and Anna Margaretha 333. She will have died shortly after birth. She was no longer with the family when they emigrated to Bessarabia in the same year.
His stay in Poland only lasted a few years. Like many German settlers, the family found themselves in a desperate situation in the Duchy of Warsaw4, which was founded in 1807.
The Russian Tsar had become aware of the bleak situation of the German settlers in the Duchy of Warsaw while pursuing Napoleon's Grande Armée on the retreat from their Russian campaign (Russian troops were already back in Warsaw in the spring of 1813). He made the settlers a tempting offer. In his appeal of November 29, 1813, Tsar Alexander assured German settlers who wanted to settle as colonists in Bessarabia of land and freedom rights "in perpetuity".
Like many others, the Deicherts took the opportunity to escape their misery and make a fresh start.
Nikolaus Deichert and his wife moved on to Russia as early as 1813, as the Hopf list shows6: 1813 from the Duchy of Warsaw, Department of Warsaw
Farmer Tajchert Nikolaus, wife Anna (her middle name was Magarete - see church register Piaseczno).
Nikolaus Taychert (Deichert) and Margaritta (Margareta) Taychert (Deichert) had a son Franziskus Taychert (Deichert) * 20-1-1818 in Krasna.
Nikolaus no longer appears in the Krasna Census of 1835. He must have died earlier.
But there are the following Deicherts in the document that could not be assigned to Nicholas until now.
# 3 Franz Deichert 33 - Wife: Rosina 31
Sons: Michael 7, Thomas 1¼
Daughter: Marianna 4
He must have been born in Germany or southern Prussia. But as explained above, he cannot belong to the family of Nikolaus Deichert, because only the couple immigrated to Krasna, no children.
# 143 Johann Deichert 18
He does not appear in the Krasna baptismal register. Therefore he cannot be assigned to any parents.
Author:
Eduard Volk
Neuwied, Mai 2025
Eduard´s Ancestor is Klemens VOLK