Peter Herbst married on 24 January 1689 in Laibarös to Kunigunda Dippold. Peter Herbst died 1 August 1735.
Pankratius Herbst, son of Peter Herbst & Kunigunda Dippold, was baptized 20 May 1700 in Laibarös. He married on 11 May 1723 to Margaretha Götz, daughter of Peter Götz. Pankratius Herbst died 16 October 1757.
The following children were born to Pankratius Herbst & Margaretha Götz: (1) Margaretha, baptized 22 October 1723; (2) Johannes, baptized 14 April 1726, died 31 July 1726; (3) Anna, baptized 9 February 1728, died 17 June 1728; (4) Pankratius, baptized 10 September 1729; (5) Anna Margaretha, baptized 24 April 1733, died 11 May 1738; (6) Johannes Stephan, baptized 1 January 1736, died 13 April 1739; (7) Johannes, baptized 6 July 1737, died 20 April 1739; (8) Margaretha, baptized 7 November 1739; and (9) Johannes, baptized 24 May 1742.
Pankratius Herbst died 16 October 1757.
Pankratius Herbst, son of Pankratius Herbst & Margaretha Götz, married on 25 January 1754 to Anna Kropfeld, daughter of Johannes Kropfeld of Eschlipp.
The following children were born to Pankratius Herbst & Anna Kropfeld: (1) Margaretha, baptized 13 December 1754; (2) Johannes, baptized 1 April 1756, died 18 June 1758; (3) Johannes, baptized 2 September 1758; (4) Georg, baptized 26 September 1760, died 2 October 1760; and (5) Kunigunda, baptized 11 September 1761, died 11 October 1762.
Anna Herbst née Kropfeld died 18 February 1763.
Pankratius Herbst remarried on 18 July 1763 to Barbara Bickel, daughter of Georg & Margaretha Bickel.
The following children were born to Pankratius Herbst & Barbara Bickel: (6) Johannes, baptized 5 May 1764.
Barbara Herbst née Bickel died 7 May 1764.
Pankratius Herbst remarried on 23 July 1764 to Elisabetha Kalb, daughter of Johannes & Margaretha Kalb of Dreuschendorf.
The following children were born to Pankratius Herbst & Elisabetha Kalb: (7) Margaretha, baptized 18 September 1765, died 11 November 1765.
Margaretha Herbst née Götz, her two sons (Pankratius & Johannes), and their families migrated to Russia.
(1) Pankrazius Herbst, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Margaretha (age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg..
Pantracius [sic] Herbst, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Margaretha (age 15) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that all three of them died en route.
(2) Hans Herbst, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and mother Margaretha [née Götz] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg..
Hans Herbst, his wife Catharina, and son Phillipp (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Phillipp also died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 15 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Herbst came from the German village of Laibarös in the Bamberg district.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Herbst family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 727.
- Parish register of St. James the Elder Catholic Church in Königsfeld.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 76.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5812, #5813.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6530-6535.
Brent Mai
Anonymous2
Entry from the parish register of St. James the Elder Catholic Church in Königsfeld recording the baptism of Pancratius Herbst from Laibarös on 20 May 1700.
Source: Anonymous2.