Friedrich Birner, a physician (Arzt), 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.
Friderich Birner, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 23; Sophia, age 21) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna died en route.
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.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 365.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 324.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2760.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4305-4308.
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