Jakob Alt, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg. He was traveling with Philipp Alt and his wife Anna. The relationship between these two Alt men, if any, is not recorded.
Jakob Alt settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 17 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 62 along with his [new] wife Katharina.
Melchior Alt, presumed son of Jakob Alt, and his mother Katharina Morkel are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk46.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Alt was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a teacher (Schulmeister).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Jakob Alt came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 409.
- 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): Hk46.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 155.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3165, #3166.
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Jakob Alt and Philipp Alt.
Source: Brent Mai.