The parish register of Heusenstamm records the baptism of Sibilla Werner, daughter of Albert & Margaretha Werner, on 5 September 1762.
Albertus Werner, a wheelwright, his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Rosina, age 7; Sibilla, age 4; Eva, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Albertus Werner was a wheelwright while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The 1767 census records that Albertus Werner came from the German village of Hesseneck [sic] in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Werner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Parish register of Heusenstamm.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 343.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #839.
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