Konrad Kesselring, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Katharina (age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Conrad Kesselring, his wife Maria, and children (Catharina, age 10¼; Conradt [sic], born in route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widower Konrad Kesselring is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 69 along with a note that he resettled to the Volga German colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The Facius List records that Konrad Kesselring (age 28) came from the German village of Orb. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Kesselring came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Orb.
[There is a Konrad Kesselring, son of Philipp Kesselring & Anna Maria Hofacker, who was baptized 8 March 1738 in St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb. Further research is needed to confirm that this is a match with the Konrad Kesselring who settled in the Volga German colony of Biberstein.]
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kesselring family among the Volga German colonies.
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