Widow Magdalena Trinak [sic], a farmer's wife, and her sons (Johannes, age 17½; Michael, age 11) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
The boys arrived in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 73 (Johannes) and No. 2 (Michael). Michael is living with the Nikolaus Stamm family. No relationship between the Stamm and Drinak families is recorded on the 1767 census.
In 1792, Michael Drinak and his family moved from Husaren to Göbel.
Michael Drinak from Husaren and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb48.
Johannes Drinak and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Göbel in Household No. 162 along with a note that they had relocated to Josefstal.
Johannes Drinak from Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 59.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Magdalena Trinak [sic] came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that the Drinak family came from the German village of Orb in the Kurmainz region.
- 1857 Göbel Census (Household No. 162).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 59).
- 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): 102.
- 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): Gb48, Mv1039.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 38, 58.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #497.
Brent Mai