There are two Mensinger families that settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767. They both arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
(1) Jakob Mensinger, a farmer, and his wife Gertruda arrived in Oranienbaum.
Jakob Mensinger (age 25) and his family are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 67.
(2) Eberhard Mensinger, a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara, and daughter Maria Anna Josepha (age ½) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Eberhard Mensinger (age 31) and his family are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 76.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census records that both Jakob and Eberhard came from the German region of Fulda.
Records in Russia record this surname as both Mensing and Mensinger.
- 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): 539.
- 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): Kl31, Kl65.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 376, 378.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4177, #4178.
Brent Mai