There are two Ernst families that settled in the Volga German colony of Moor. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires further research.
(1) Andreas Ernst, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Hans, age 19; Heinrich, age 15; Walter, age 12; Johann, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a boat named Святая Екатерина (St. Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Moor on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Ernst came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that he came from the German district of Isenburg.
(2) Martin Roth, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughter Anna (age 6), and [nephew] Georg [Ernst] (age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Orphan Hans Georg Ernst (age 21) is recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 58 along with his uncle, Martin Roth.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29, 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 181, 226.
- 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): Mo01, Mo27, Mo31, Mo32, Mo50.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 161, 170.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1194, #1601.
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Georg [Ernst] along with the Martin Roth family.
Source: Brent Mai.