Nikolaus Janet and his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Nicolaus Schuket [sic], his wife Magdalena, and daughter Frideria [sic] (born en route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov along with a note that newborn daughter Frideria also died before reaching the colonies.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. Nikolaus is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 146 along with a new wife Maria Margaretha.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Jacqnet [sic] was a joiner while the 1767 census records that he was a carpenter (Tischler).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Nikolaus Janet came from the village of Liege [Belgium].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 307.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4482.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4859-4861.
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