Philipp Miks [sic], a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Philipp Marker and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs109.
Other Marker families, presumed to also be his descendants, are recorded in Households No. Hs090, Hs103, and Hs110.
In 1851, Georg Marker and his family moved from Hussenbach to Kratzke. They are recorded on the 1857 census of Kratzke in Household No. 80.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Miks came from the German region of Hanau.
- 1857 Kratzke Census (Household No. 80).
- 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): 807.
- 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): Hs090, Hs103, Hs109, Hs110.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6460.
Brent Mai