Johann Sittig, a tailor, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Eva, age 4; Barbara, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johannes Sittich [sic], his wife Katharina, and daughter Elisabeth [sic] (age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Sittig, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 17.
Johann is recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb11 along with this daughter and her family.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Sittig came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Kersdorf.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sittig family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 500.
- 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): Nb11.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3918.
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Brent Mai