Johannes Borger & Maria Catharina Fuchs from Steinau (later in Gadernheim) had the following sons: (1) Konrad; and (2) Johann Jacob, born 23 April 1730 in Steinau.
(1) Konrad Borger married on 22 May 1753 in Reichenbach to Maria Appolonia Jährling.
The births of the following children born to Konrad Borger and Maria Appolonia Jährling are recorded in the parish register of Reichenbach: (1) Katharina Barbara, born 22 February 1754; (2) Johann Christian, born 1 June 1755; and (3) Anna Katharina, born 21 December 1757.
(2) On 17 March 1760, Johann Jacob Borger immigrated from Frankfurt am Main to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein). They registered on 1 May 1760 in the Danish colony of Grönhöj.
Johann Jacob Borger married in 1760 in Jutland to Anna Catharina Bitsch, daughter of Johann Georg Bitsch & Anna Barbara Koch. She had been born 4 or 12 August 1742 in Reichenbach. [See Bitsch Family.]
The births of three children born to Johann Jacob Borger & Anna Catharina Bitsch are recorded in Denmark: (1) Johann Philipp, born 16 June 1761 in Thornig, died 1761; (2) Johann Peter, born 1763 in Grönhöj, died 1765; and (3) Johannes, born 21 October 1764 in Thorning, died 1764.
They were dismissed from the Danish colonies in 1765 and joined the migration to Russia.
While in Lübeck, the birth of another son is recorded in the Lübeck Dom [Cathedral]: Georg Philipp, born 5 May 1766.
Jakob Berger [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann Peter, age 3½; Johann, age 2¼; Georg [Philipp], age 3-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Jakob Borger, his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Georg Philipp, age 9; Anna Katharina, age 7; Johannes, age 5; Johannes, age ¼) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 31 along with Christian & Anna Katharina, the orphaned children of Konrad Borger.
In 1789, Philipp, Johannes, and Adam Borger moved from Beideck to Warenburg along with their step-father Heinrich Götz.
The 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk records Georg Philipp Borger from Warenburg in Household No. St17.
Christian Borger is recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd89.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Borger came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Household No. 31).
- 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): 75.
- 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): Bd89, St17, Wr018, Mv0200.
- Parish register of Grönhöj (Schleswig-Holstein).
- Parish register of Lübeck Dom [Cathedral].
- Parish register of Reichenbach.
- Parish register of Steinau.
- Parish register of Thorning (LDS Film #7472382).
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #231.
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Jakob Berger and his family (#231).
Source: Brent Mai.