Jacob Vogelbach from Waldshut in the Schwarzwald & Dorothea Brede from Weckesheim were married on 16 April 1766 in the City Lutheran Church of Friedberg.
Jakob Vogelbach, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Dorothea (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 15 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Vogelbach came from the German village of Elzach in the Schwarzwald area.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #316.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 151.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2200.
Brent Mai
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