Anton Kleinlein, a hat maker (Hutmacher), his wife Margaretha, and son Thomas (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Kleinlein, his wife Magdalena [sic], and son Antonius (age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Kleinlein, a hat maker (Hutmacher), his wife Anna [sic], and son Thomas (age 3) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 2 along with a note indicating that they relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
Thomas Kleinlein (age 11), orphaned son of Anton Kleinlein, is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 180 along with a note that he is living with the Joseph Hensel family.
In 1792, Thomas Kleinlein moved from Katharinenstadt to Luzern.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Anton Kleinlein came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Thomas Kleinlein came from the German town of Hamburg.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 180).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Lz22, Mv1217.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 162.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4606.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5910-5912.
Brent Mai