Heinrich Kern, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, children (Johann Adam, age 20; Anna Kunigunda, age 14; Johann Hermann, age 8; Johann Heinrich, age 6; Adelheit, age 1½), and his sister-in-law Anna Kunigunda [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 146.
Johann Heinrich Kern, his wife Kunigunda, and children (Johann Adam, age 24; Katharina Elisabeth, age 20) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 20.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Heinrich Kern came from the German region of Hessen.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 20).
- 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): 647.
- 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): Nr020.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 268.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5195.
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