Andreas Friedrich Kisser, a farmer, and his wife Eva arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka under the command of Lieutenant Perepechin.
Friedrich Kieser [not Kisner], a farmer, and his wife [new?] Anna Elisabeth Malchus settled in the Volga German colony of Hildmann on 18 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41.
The widow and and children of Friedrich Kieser (Heinrich, age 25; Anna Maria, age 30) are recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd38 along with a note that the children are working in Köhler.
In 1820, Heinrich Kieser and his family moved from Hildmann to Husaren. His death in 1829 is recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 65.
Zacharius Kieser, son of Heinrich Kieser, and his family Husaren are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 5.
In 1795, Adam Kieser moved from Hildmann to Leichtling.
Adam Kieser from Hildmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg23.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Kieser came from the German village of Gotha in Sachsen (Saxony).
- 1834 Hildmann Census (Household No. 75).
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 65).
- 1834 Leichtling Census (Household No. 66).
- 1850 Leichtling Census (Household No. 45).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 5).
- 1857 Leichtling Census (Household No. 29).
- 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): Hd38, Lg23, Mv0850.
- 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): #3867.
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