Nikolaus Hornung, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Julianna Louisa, age 5; Georg Anton, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Nicolaus Hornung, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Juliana, age 5; Joh. Anton, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Nikolaus Hornung and his family are recorded in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. In 1792, Johann Georg Hornung moved from Hussenbach to Bauer.
In 1791, Nikolaus Hornung moved from Hussenbach to Sarepta.
The parish register of Sarepta records that Nikolaus Hornung received permission to move from Hussenbach to Sarepta on 5 July 1791.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Hornung came from the German region of the Pfalz.
[Some publications record this surname as Hartung.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 783.
- 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): Br27, Mv1059, Mv1060.
- Parish register of Sarepta.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6269.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8290-8293.
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