Widower Peter Orner, a button maker (Knopfmacher), and his children (Georg, age 21; Maria, age 21; Johann, age 19; Christian, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Peter Orner and his children (Maria Carolina, age 22; Georg Heinrich, age 20; Joh. Georg, age 18; Christ. Heinrich, age 10) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Georg Heinrich died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Anton on 1 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 59.
In 1788, Christian Ordner [sic] and his family moved from Messer to Anton.
Georg Orner and his daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An05.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Orner came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that he came from "Oberamt Neustadt" in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Orner family among the Volga German colonies.
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Brent Mai