Widower Johann Galpfleisch [sic], a farmer, and his children (Konrad, age 39; Johann, age 23; Rosina, age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Heinr. Kalbfleisch and his children (Johann Conrad, age 26, Johann, age 24, Rosina, age 19) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. Son Johannes is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Hs124.
Johannes Kalbfleisch is recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 124.
The death of Johannes Kalbfleisch in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 121. No male heirs are recorded.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that the Kalbfleisch family came from the German region of the Pfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kalbfleisch family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 124).
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 121).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 818-819.
- 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): Hs124.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6552.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7036-7039.
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