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 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan 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 Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Kirchgessner came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Kaspar Kirchgessner came from the German village of Gemünden am Main in the region of Würzburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 490.
- 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.
Brent Mai