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.
He 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.
- 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
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Jakob Alt and Philipp Alt.
Source: Brent Mai.
Pre-Volga Origin
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