Kaspar Kirchgessner, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Maria Christina, age 18; Peter, age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka under the command of Lieutenant Perepechin.
Kaspar Kirchgessner, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Christina, age 18; Peter, age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 57. They had arrived in Köhler on 21 August 1767.
Son Peter Kirchgessner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl16.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Kirchgessner came from the German village of Gemünden am Main in the region of Würzburg.
- 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): Kl16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 373.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3841.
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