Paul Bährlein, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Georg (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Paul Buhrlein and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Paulus Bährlein, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Peter (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 64. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
Following the destruction of Leitsinger, they resettled in the colony of Neu-Kolonie and are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Nk09.
The minutes of the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversight) record on 23 August 1776 the request of widower Paul Bährlein of Leitsinger to marry the widow Ottilia [surname not recorded] from Hölzel. Permission was granted.
The death of Peter Bährlein in 1829 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 17.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Bährlein came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Poppenwind in the Bamberg region.
[Some translations of early documents erroneously record this surname as Pirrlein.]
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 17).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 768.
- 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): Nk09.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 74.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6147.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7607-7608.
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