Johann Siebenlist from Burg Sinn & Catharina Prunck from Peddert were married on 11 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Siebenlist and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard the pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 96.
Georg Christoph Siebenlist (age 29), his brother Georg Heinrich Siebenlist (age 27), and his sister Maria Cecelia Siebenlist [all from Dönhof] are recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 129 as the stepchildren of Heinrich Schulz.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Siebenlist was a cobbler from the German region of Dienheim while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German region of Würzburg.
- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 129).
- 1850 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 166).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 319.
- 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): Dh084.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #518.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 367.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2354.
Brent Mai