Johannes Kaiser, his wife Susanna, and children (Maria, age 3; Johann, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Johannes Kayser, his wife Susanna, and children (Maria, age 3; Johann, age 1¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both children died in route.
Johann Kaiser, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Cäsarsfeld on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johann Kaiser came from the German village of Bürstadt.
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Brent Mai