Johann Bichert, a farmer, his wife Gertrude, and children (Anna, age 19; Konrad, age 17½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Konrad Bichert (age 52), a farmer, his [new] wife Katharina Elisabeth (age 42), son Johann Konrad (age 18), and stepson Johannes Stellwagen (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Moor on 15 January 1767. [See Stellwagen Family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Bichert came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Konrad Bichert came from the German region of Kurpfalz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
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- 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): Mo07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 159.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #553.
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