Anton Sommer, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 15 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32 along with his new wife Elisabeth, presumed to be the oldest daughter of Balthasar Happel [See Happel Family], and the other surviving children of Balthasar Happel (Anna Maria, age 17; Jakob, age 14; Maria Eva, age 12).
Anton Sommer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf46.
Peter Sommer, presumed son of Anton Sommer, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf54.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Sommer came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
- 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): 353.
- 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): Pf46, Pf54.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 385.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2663.
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