Adam Köhler, a farmer, his wife Anna Christina, and son Jakob (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Adam Köhler, a farmer, his wife Anna Christina, and son Jakob (age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 38. They had settled in Pfeifer on 15 June 1767.
It is possible that this son Jakob is the same person as Jakob Allendorf who appears on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf64.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Adam Köhler came from the German region of Fulda.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Köhler family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 347.
- 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): Pf64.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 386.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2600.
Brent Mai