Jakob Siebert [sic], a teacher, his wife Maria Katharina, and children (Susanna, age 18; Louisa, age 12; Johann, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heidemann.
Jakob Siebert [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria Katharina, and children (Anna Susanna, age 18; Sophia Louisa, age 10; Johann Heinrich, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 25. They had settled in Bangert on 1 July 1767.
Johann Heinrich Sieber, son of Jakob Sieber, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bangert in Household No. Bg28.
The death of Johann Heinrich Sieber in 1810 is recorded on the 1811 census of Bangert in Household No. 28.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Siebert [sic] came from the German region of Schwaben [Swabia]. The 1767 census records that Jakob Siebert [sic] came from the German village of Ruckersdorf in the region of Nassau-Dillenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Bg28.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 111.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4105.
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