The parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Camberg records the baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Georg & Anna Margaretha Haber: (1) Anna Maria, born 20 August 1747; (2) Johannes, born 23 December 1749; (3) Anna Christina, born 1 July 1752; (4) Zacharias, born 17 December 1754; (5) Katharina, born 10 March 1756; and (6) Antonetta, born 12 February 1762.
Georg Haber, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 21; Johann, age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 28 August 1767. Son Johann[es] Haber, a merchant (Kaufmann), and his new wife Anna Christina are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 11. Daughter Anna Maria Haber is recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 119 along with a note that father Johannes Georg Haber died 1 September 1767, mother Anna Margaretha Haber died 14 September 1767, and that daughter Anna Maria had married to Anton Klein.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Haber came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that the Haber family came from the German village of Wirges [Würges] in the Trier region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 524.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 217, 239.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4094 (p. 267).
Brent Mai
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Entry from the 1767 census of Brabander recording Anna Maria Haber and her family.
Source: Anonymous2.