Johann Ziegler, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Johann Ziegler, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Georg Heinrich (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 63 along with three orphaned Strömel children. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Ziegler and Strömel families. They had settled in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census records that Johann Ziegler came from the German region of Würzburg.
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- 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): Pf44, Pf52.
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Brent Mai