Johann [Jakob] Arends [sic] and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767. Johann Jakob Arndt is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8 along with his new wife Elisabeth and her children (Andreas, age 14; Christoph, age 12; Louisa, age 8) [surname Horn].
In 1796, Abraham Arndt moved from Jost to Warenburg.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann [Jakob] Arndt was a cobbler from the German village of Ziegenhain. The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Arndt was a farmer from the German village of Ziegeser [?] in the Brandenburg region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 169.
- 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): Jo45, Wr037, Mv1083.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 197.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1092.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger lists recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Arends [sic] and his wife.
Source: Brent Mai.