The parish register of St. Johannes der Täufer (St. John the Baptist) Catholic Church in Hammelburg records that Christoph Horrlein, son of Johannes Adam Horrlein, married on 27 February 1753 to Maria Magdalena Eberth, daughter of Johannes Eberth.
The parish register of St. Johannes der Täufer (St. John the Baptist) Catholic Church in Hammelburg records the baptisms of the following children born to Christoph Horrlein & Maria Magdalena Eberth: (1) Maria Cecilia, baptized 31 January 1754; (2) Maria Barbara, baptized 26 November 1755; (3) Maria Elisabetha, baptized 20 October 1757; (4) Valentin, baptized in November 1759; (5) Anna Sabina, baptized 25 January 1761; (6) Johannes Adam, baptized 21 May 1762, died 28 January 1765; and (7) Maria Gertrude, baptized 10 October 1764, died 10 January 1765.
Maria Magdalena Horrlein née Eberth died 4 January 1765.
Christoph Hurlein remarried on 17 February 1765 to Anna Dorothea Bindrihm, daughter of Balthasar & Gertruda Bindrihm.
Christoph Herrlein, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and children (Cecelia, age 15; Maria Barbara, age 11; Elisabeth, age 9; Valentin, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
Christoph Irle [sic], a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and children (Cecilia, age 15½; Barbara, age 13; Maria Elisabeth, age 10; Valentin, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household in Household No. 4. They had arrived in Semenovka on 24 July 1767.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Households No. Se47 & Se53.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Herrlein came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Christoph Irle [sic] came from the German village of Hammelburg in the Fulda region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 764-765.
- 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): Se47, Se53.
- Parish register of St. Johannes der Täufer (St. John the Baptist) Catholic Church in Hammelburg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 178.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6117.
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