Anton Kompa [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Gertrude (age 16¼) 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.
Anton Combat, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Gertrude (age 16) settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 24 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Kompa [sic] came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Anton Combat came from the German village of Büdesheim in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31, 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 137.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 157.
- Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766 "Reports by Ivan Kulberg" (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #819.
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