Peter Allbach, a son of Johann Peter Allbach & Maria Elisabetha Peter, was born in Vadenrod, south of Alsfeld, and baptized on 10 August 1738 in the Evangelical Church of Hopfgarten about 4 kilometers from Vadenrod. His brother Johann Heinrich, also born in Vadenrod, was baptized in the same church on 2 July 1742.
The birth of a son to Peter Albach is recorded in Vadenrod: Johann, born 9 September 1766.
Peter, a farmer, his wife Katharina, son Johann (age 1), and brother Johann Heinrich (a tailor) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
The newborn died before arrival in the colony of Paulskaya on 23 July 1767. Peter & Katharina Albach are recorded in Paulskaya on the 1767 Census in Household No. 69. Brother Johann Heinrich Albach is recorded in Household No. 88.
Another Johann Heinrich Albach, a single farmer (age 25), is also recorded recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 105 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Paulskaya in 1768.
On the 1798 Census of Paulskaya, Katharina and is recorded as a widow in Household No. Pl10.
Johann, a descendant of this family, moved to Beauregard in 1797 where he is recorded on the 1798 Census in Household No. Bo24.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Bo24, Pl10, Mv2246.
- Parish records of Hopfgarten (LDS Film No. 1336965).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 222, 347, 351.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4646, #4647.
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Brent Mai