There are two Järger families that settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767. Their relationship to each other is not recorded on the 1767 census, but they are believed to be brothers.
(1) Georg Järger, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
Georg Järger and his [new] wife Dorothea are recorded on the 1767 Dietel census in Household No. 43.
Dorothea Järger, widow of Georg Järger, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Dt49.
The 1767 census records that Georg Järger came from the German village of Zenbar [?] in the Alsace region.
(2) Adam Järger, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
Adam Järger and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 15.
Adam Järger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt11.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Adam Järger came from the region of Alsace.
- 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): Dt11, Dt49.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 285, 295.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2455, #2706.
Brent Mai
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