Konrad Burger, a farmer, his wife Appolonia, and children (Christian, age 12; Katharina, age 8; Johann Georg, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann.
Widower Konrad Burger, a miller (Müller), and his children (Johann Christian, age 13; Anna Katharina, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 54. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Burger came from the German region of Schönberg. The 1767 census records that Konrad Burger came from the German village of Rimbach in the Erbach region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Burger family among the Volga German colonies.
[The Johann Adam Burger whose daughter Elisabetha Catharina settled in the colony of Kind was married in Rimbach, so the Konrad Burger & Johann Adam Burger families may be related.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 526.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 242.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4114 (p.268).
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