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Arn(h)old (Biberstein)

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Arnhold (Biberstein)
Arnold (Biberstein)
Арнгольдъ (Biberstein)
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Discussion & Documentation

Georg Arnhold arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.

Georg Arnold is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Georg Arnhold, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 82. He is recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb29.

The 1767 census records that Georg Arnhold came from the German village of Friedersdorf.

Sources

- 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): 873.
- 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): Bb29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 219.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3957.

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Brent Mai

Volga Colonies