Johann[es] Kirchner, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Dorothea (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg along with his widowed sister-in-law Margaretha Hill (age 38) and her daughter Margaretha (age 9).
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kirchner came from the German region of Franken (Franconia). The 1767 census records that Johannes came from the German region of Würzburg.
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- 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): Pf19.
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Brent Mai