Orphan Martin Bender (age 18), son of the deceased Johannes Bender, is recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 20 along with the Paul Grau family. They had settled there on 24 July 1767.
Martin Bender from Semenovka and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km004.
The death of Martin Bender in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 49.
There is a single Martin Bender who arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl. There were other families who settled in Semenovka aboard this ship.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Bender came from the German region of Mainz.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Households No. 49, 50).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 798.
- 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): Km004.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 183.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6394.
Brent Mai