The baptism on 4 July 1726 of Bernard Geringer, son of Andreas & Maria Geringer of Burglesau, is recorded in the parish register of St. Kilian Lutheran Church in Scheßlitz.
He married on 7 February 1763 in St. Kilian Lutheran Church in Scheßlitz to Veronika Schmidt, daughter of Johannes & Christina Schmitt of Stübig.
The baptism on 25 September 1729 of Veronica Schmid, daughter of Johannes & Christina Schmid of Stübig, is recorded in the parish register of St. Martin Lutheran Church in Weichenwasserlos.
Bernhard Göhringer, a farmer, his wife Veronica, and children (Johann, age 13; Philipp, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Bernhard Goeringer, his wife Veronica, and children (Johannes, age 13; Margretha, age 4; and newborn Anna) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Bernhard died en route.
Widow Veronica remarried to Michael Schatz.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21 [where the surname is mis-translated as Körner].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Bernhard Göhringer came from the German region of Bamberg.
- 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): 770.
- 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): Lw08.
- Parish register of St. Kilian Lutheran Church in Scheßlitz.
- Parish register of St. Martin Lutheran Church in Weichenwasserlos.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6167.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7681-7685.
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Entry from the parish register of St. Martin Lutheran Church in Weichenwasserlos recording the baptism of Veronica Schmid.
Source: Brent Mai
Entry from the parish register of St. Kilian Lutheran Church in Scheßlitz recording the baptism of Bernard Geringer.
Source: Brent Mai.