Widow [Anna] Margaretha Bierwert and her son Joseph (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
The widow Bierwert remarried to Johann Klebenspies. Johann Klebeckspiss [sic] (age 38), a farmer, and his [new] wife Anna Margaretha [widow Bierwert] (age 29) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 72 along with his sons (Hans Georg, age 19; Michael, age 18) and [step-son] Joseph [Bierwert] (age 6). They had arrived in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767. [See Klebenspies Family.]
In 1788, Joseph Beirwert moved from Pfeifer to Leichtling.
Peter Beirwert from Leichtling and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
Joseph Bahrwit and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that the widow Margaretha Bierwert came from the German region of Fulda.
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 648.
- 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): Lg25, Mv2248.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5200.
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