Christian [sic] Lichtner, his wife Dorothea, and children (Johann, age 17¼; Margaretha, age 12; Elisabeth, age 7; Christoph, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Christian [sic] Lichtner, his wife Dorothea, and children (Joh. Christian, age 17½; Johanna Margareta, age 12; Carl Martin, age ¾) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Dorothea died en route.
Christoph Lichtner, a farmer, his [new] wife Maria, and children ([a] Johann Christian, age 16; [b] Margaretha, age 12; [c] Elisabeth, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 22 along with stepdaughters (Anna Sophia Hauck, age 19; Sophia Elisabeth Hauck, age 17; Dorothea Elisabeth Hauck, age 12; Maria Louisa Hauck, age 9). They had arrived in Kaneau on 7 June 1767. [See Hauck Family.]
Christoph Lichtner (age 76) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn18.
[a] Christian Lichtner (age 49) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn16.
The death of Christian Lichtner in 1823 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kaneau in Household No. 56.
[b] Albrecht Richter (age 37), a cobbler (Schuster), and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth née Lichtner (age 21) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 104.
Anna Margaretha Richter née Lichtner (age 47) from Kaneau and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka104.
[c] Johanna Elisabeth Grälich née Lichtner (age 37) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn33.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Christoph Lichtner came from the German region of Dessau. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] records in Household No. 104 that Dorothea Elisabeth Lichtner came from the German village of Mostaca [perhaps Mosigkau] in the Anhalt-Dessau region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 104).
- 1834 Kaneau Census (Households No. 2, 56, 57).
- 1850 Kaneau Census (Households No. 3, 4, 5, 9, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92).
- 1857 Kaneau Census (households No. 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 48, 97, 98, 99, 100).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 188.
- 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): Ka104, Kn16, Kn18, Kn33, Mn31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 248.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1244.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1125-1128.
Brent Mai