Samuel Görecke [sic], a cobbler, and his wife Rosina 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.
Samuel Jerke, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his [new] wife Johanna Christina, and son Johann Christoph (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 6. They had arrived in Jost on 5 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Samuel Jerke came from the German region of Anhalt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Lebbin in the Brandenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jerke family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 168.
- 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): Jo53.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 196.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1086.
Brent Mai