Johann Wendel Marger [sic], a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Margaretha, and their daughter Maria Margaretha (age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Fortuna under the command of Skipper Peter Stahl.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Beideck and are recorded there on the 1775 census in Household No. 41 under the surname Merker.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Wendel Marger [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 41).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2276.
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