Andreas Keberlein, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 August 1767 and Andreas is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 66 along with his new wife Margaretha.
A translation of the 1798 census of Pfeifer records this surname as Keberle.
Johannes Keberlein, brother of Adam Keberlein, is recorded on the 1834 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 19 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Semenovka.
Ivan Keberlein from Pfeifer (age 10) is recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 76.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Keberlein came from the German region of Franken (Franconia) while the 1767 census records that he came from Würzburg.
- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Household No. 19).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 76).
- 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): Pf34, Pf70, Pf79, Pf82.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 393.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5094.
Brent Mai
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