Andreas Kimbal [sic], a weaver, his wife Margaretha, children (Lanetta, age 3; Louisa, age 2), and [step-]children (Elisabeth [Fuchs], age 16; Johann David [Fuchs], age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
Andreas Guimbald, his wife Margretha, and [step-]children (Maria Elisabeth [Fuchs], age 14; David [Fuchs], age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Gimbald, a silk weaver (Seidenweber), his wife Margaretha, and [step-]children (Elisabeth [Fuchs], age 18; Ludwig David [Fuchs], age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 66. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
In documents of the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversight) dated 14 November 1777, David Fuchs is identified as the stepson of Andreas Gimbald, confirming that the Johann David/Ludwig David who is recorded above as a son of Andreas is actually his step-son.
David Fuchs and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn01. Elisabeth Chevalier née Fuchs and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn13.
- 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): Bn01, Bn13.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 229.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #1122.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7791-7794.
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