Christian [Friedrich] Garnisch, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
He arrived in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 74 along with his [new] wife Anna Barbara and stepdaughter, Maria [surname not recorded].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Garnisch was a blacksmith while the 1767 census records that he was a merchant (Kaufmann).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Garnish came from the German village of Annaberg. The 1767 census records that Christian Friedrich Garnisch came from the German village of Annaberg in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 122.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 333.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #691.
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