Two Lüber[t] families arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Ernst Lüber[t], a gardner, his wife Johanna, and children (Susanna, age 16¼; Johanna, age 13; Christoph, age 10¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann Christoph Liebert from Zürich is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka105.
Johannes [Kaspar] Liebert, son of Johann Christoph, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Boisroux in Household No. 94.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ernst Liebert, the father of Johann Christoph, came from the German region of Dessau.
(2) Friederika Lüber[t] arrived in Oranienbaum.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friederika Lüber[t] came from the German region of Dessau.
- 1834 Boisroux Census (Household No. 94).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 221, 222.
- 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): Ka105.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1560, #1567.
Brent Mai