Johann Herrlein, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, age 17½; Friedrich, age 15¼; Maria, age 9; Christina, age 6; Konrad, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Johann Jakob Herrlein, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Maria Elisabeth, age 17; Katharina, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 33. They had settled there on 11 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Herrlein came from the German village of Genkingen in the Siekingen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Herrlein 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): 335.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 222.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2481.
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