Joh. Conrad Herber, a linen weaver (Leineweber) from Neuengronau in the baronial district of Düngen, son of the late Joh. Adam Herber, & Anna Maria Schmidt, daughter of Ulrich Schmidt from Elm in the district of Brandenstein, were married on 22 July 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Schlitz.
Johann Konrad Herber and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Conrad Herbert [sic] and his wife Anna are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Konrad Herber, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 74.
Philipp Herber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm18.
In 1796, Cecilia Herber, widow of Konrad Herber, and her family moved from Nieder-Monjou to Schäfer.
Cecilia Herrmann née Schäfer (widow Herber) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schäfer in Household No. Sf21.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Herber came from the German village of Herzfeld.
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- 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): Nm18, Sf21, Mv1923.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #732.
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Brent Mai