Theodor Kallenberg [sic], a weaver (Tuchweber), and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 16 August 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 120 along with a note that Theodor Kohlenberg [sic] died there on 20 October 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Theodor Kohlbeck [sic] came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Margaretha Kohlenberg [sic] came from the German village of Göttingen in the Hessen-Kassel region.
There are no known surviving male descendant lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 281.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 436.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2046.
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