Peter Blumberger, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Andreas, age 14; Margaretha, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Peter Blumberger, his wife Sophia, and daughter (Margaretha, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anna [sic] Blumberger (age 4) is recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 4 along with her stepfather Johannes Österlein.
Margaretha Blumberg[er] is recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om05 along with her husband Jakob Wendler and family. [See Wendler Family.]
The 1767 census does not record from where Anna Blumberger came.
There are no known surviving male lines of the Blumberger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Om05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 290.
- Oranienbaum Passenger List #4718 [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5652-5654.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Peter Blumberger and his family (#4718).
Source: Brent Mai.
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