Peter Georg, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant ergey Bartenyev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Peter Georg came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1834 Norka Census (Household No. 133).
- 1857 Norka Census (Household No. 154).
- 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): Nr122.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 235.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4846.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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