Johann Georg Ringler, a farmer, his wife Katharina Dorothea, and children (Anna Maria, age 6; Philipp Heinrich, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
The widow and sons of Anton Ringler are recorded on the 1798 census of Straub in Household No. Sr22.
Georg Heinrich Ringler (age 6) & Johann Philipp Ringler (age 5) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 22 along with their stepfather Martin Schröder and a note that they all relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Georg Ringler is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 4.
Philipp Ringler, stepson of Martin Schröder, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 28.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Ringler came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
[Some publications have recorded this surname as Lingler.]
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 22).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Households No. 4, 28, 34).
- 1857 Katharinental Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 130.
- 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): Sr22.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #771.
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