Sebastian Garion, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughters (Maria, age 20; Anna, age 19; Magdalena, age 10¼) and mother-in-law Anna Klara [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard the pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Sebastian Garion, a farmer, his wife Ottilia, and children (Johannes, age 20; Magdalena, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 40. They had settled there on 18 August 1767.
In 1797, Joseph Garion moved from Mariental to Louis.
He is recorded on the 1798 census of Louis in Household No. Ls08.
The death of Joseph Garion in 1827 is recorded on the 1834 census of Louis in Household No. 62.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Sebatian Garion came from the German region of Dienheim. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Mina [?].
- 1834 Louis Census (Households No. 62, 106).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 319.
- 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): Ls08, Mv1653.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 107.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2359.
Brent Mai