Friedrich Birner, a physician, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 23; Sophia, age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin. The parents evidently died shortly after arrival in Russia.
Johann Andreas Birner, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 3 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 90.
Daughter Sophia Binner [sic] is recorded an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 4 as the wife of Johann Fleischer along with a note that they settled permanently in Katharinenstadt in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johann Andreas Birner came from the German region of Gotha.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 324.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 352.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2760.
Brent Mai
Waldemar Kurt
Pre-Volga Origin
no results
Volga Colonies
Immigration Locations
No results