Johannes Galler [sic] & Margretha [sic] Mahler were married on 9 March 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Johannes Haller, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Leichtling on 14 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.
Johannes Haller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg37.
The death of Franz Joseph Halle[r] of Seelmann, son of Johannes Haller, is recorded on 3 February 1803 in the parish register of Preuss.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Haller came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Haller came from the German village of Seligenstadt in the region of Mainz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 163.
- 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): Lg37.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #394.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 59.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1032.
Brent Mai