Lorenz Pfannenkuchen, a farmer, and his wife Kunigunda arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Lorentz Pfannenkuchen and his wife Cunigunda are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Lorenz Pfannenkuchen settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767 where he is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 57 along with his new wife, Margaretha.
In 1790, Johann Pfannenkuchen moved from Orlovskaya to Schönchen.
Johann Pfannenkuchen from Orlovskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn14.
Johannes Pfannenkuchen, presumed son of Johann Pfannenkuchen, is recorded on the 1834 census of Schönchen in Household No. 108.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Lorenz Pfannenkuchen came from the German region of Bamberg.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Schönchen Census (Household No. 108).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 221.
- 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): Sn14, Mv2176.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 323.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #1556.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1442-1443.
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