Johann Michael [sic] Zorn, from Gräfenhainichen, his wife, three sons, and one daughter are recorded on a list of those departing Dessau.
Martin Zorn, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Sophia, and sons (Johann, age 6; Gottfried, age 4; Gottlieb, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Martin Zorn, his wife Soph. Elisab., and sons (Johann Friedrich, age 6; Johann Gottfried, age 4; Johann Gottlieb, age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.
In 1783, Gottfried Zorn moved from Orlovskaya to Enders.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Zorn came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Martin Zorn came from the German village of Gräfenhainichen in the region of Dessau.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 208.
- 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): En16, Or35, Or46, Mv2152.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 316.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1435.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0840-0844.
Brent Mai
List of those depating Dessau in 1766 recording Johann Michael Zorn (#5).
Source: Karl Becker.