Johann Andreas Kelhorn, a single miller, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 13 July 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23 along with his new wife Margaretha.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Andreas Hellhorn [sic] was a miller from the German region of Prussia while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker) from the German village of Hettstedt in the Mansfeld region. The 1767 census records that Margaretha came from the German village of Büdingen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kelhorn 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): 424.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 275.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3309.
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