Two Gottfried families arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin. They are believed to be father and son, but further research is needed to confirm this relationship.
(1) Johann Gottfried, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 18¼; Adam, age 15; Maria, age 13; Elisabeth, age 5) arrived in Oranienbaum.
(2) Johann Gottfried, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johannes Gottfried (age 22), a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria Hoffmann (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 33. They had arrived in Göbel on 25 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both Gottfried families came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Gottfried came from the German village of Kaisersbach in the Kurmainz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 101, 104.
- 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): Gb24, Gb25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 47.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #490, #522.
Brent Mai