Jakob Kunstenhausen, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Eva arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Jacob Guntzenhauser [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Kunstenhausen was from the German region of Augsburg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Usaurea in Schwaben (Swabia).
There are no known surviving male lines of the Kunstenhausen family among the Volga German colonies.
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