Georg Sennlein, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and sons (Johann Michael, age 5; Johann, age 2) 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.
Georg Sehnlein [sic], his wife Margretha, and sons (Johan Michel, age 5; Johann, age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both sons died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
Georg Sennlein, presumed to be the son of Georg Sennlein (senior), and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk30.
The death of Georg Sennlein in 1823 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 7.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Sennlein is from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Georg Sennlein came from the German village of Rabenstein in the region of Bamberg.
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 7).
- 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): 728.
- 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): Nk20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 70.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5817.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6552-6555.
Brent Mai