Johann Christoph Berg, son of Simon & Anna Eva Berg, was baptized in the Assumption of Mary Catholic church in Lampertheim on 5 November 1724. Catharina Münzberger, daughter of Johann Georg & Anna Eva Münzberger, was also baptized there on 5 December 1723. The couple married in this parish on 7 February 1753.
The baptisms of two of their daughters are recorded in the Lampertheim parish records: (1) Maria Elisabeth on 12 January 1754, and (2) Judith on 3 January 1756.
Christoph Berg, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Elisabeth, age 13; Judit, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 3.
Christoph Berg and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd19.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Berg came from the German region of Worms.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Berg family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Sd19.
- Parish register of Lampertheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 168.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2699.
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