Karl Albert, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Heinrich Albrecht [sic] (age 28), and craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Maria (age 22) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 196 along with Johannes Bollender (age 8), the orphaned son of Philipp Bollender. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between this Albrecht [sic] family and the Bollender family. They had arrived in Norka on 2 September 1767.
Karl Albert (age 36), his [new] wife Anna Maria (age 36), their children (Katharina, age 4; Heinrich Karl, age 4-weeks), and stepson Johannes Bollender (age 15) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 55.
Karl Albert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr057.
The death of Karl Albert in 1807 is recorded on the 1811 census of Norka in Household No. 57.
Heinrich Albert, son of Karl Albert, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Norka in Household No. 326.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Karl / Heinrich Albert came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 55).
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 57).
- 1834 Norka Census (Household No. 326).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 807.
- 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): Nr057.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 282.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6461.
Brent Mai