Mathias Ancre, a farmer, his wife Anna [widow of Georg Kammerer], and [step-]daughter Konstansia [Kammerer] (age 14) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census recorded that Mathias Ancre came from the German town of Danzig.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ancre family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 53.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 54.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #69.
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