Johann Jacob Albrecht, son of Johann Peter & Dorothea Albrecht of Pferdsbach, was baptized on 23 August 1711 in Wolf. He married on 21 February 1737 in Wolf to Anna Maria Düdolff, daughter of Johann Caspar Düdolff [also recorded as Diedolf]. She had been baptized in Wolf on 8 September 1715.
Among their nine children is Martin Albrecht who was born in Pferdsbach and baptized on 30 November 1748 in Wolf.
Martin Albrecht, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
Martin Albrecht, a farmer, and his [new] wife Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 30. They had arrived in Norka on 15 August 1767.
Martin Albrecht and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 184.
Martin Albrecht and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr194.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Martin Albrecht came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Martin Albrecht came from the German village of Pferdsbach in the region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 184).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 605.
- 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): Nr194.
- Parish register of Wolf (including Pferdsbach).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 236.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4847.
Steve Schreiber
Brent Mai