Heinrich Sommer, a single miller, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a Danish galliot named Der Engel Rafael (Archangel Raphael) under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
This Heinrich Sommer may be the same person as Georg Sommer who is recorded in the Volga German colony of Laub.
Georg Sommer, his wife Catharina, and daughter Johanna Dorothea (age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Georg Sommer, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 51. They had settled there on 15 September 1767.
Georg Sommer and his descendants are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Households No. Lb40 & Lb59.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Sommer came from the German region of Prussia. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Sommer came from the German village of Freiwalde in the region of Preußisch-Schlesien (Prussian Silecia).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 442.
- 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): Lb40, Lb59.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 32.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3447.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7991-7992.
Brent Mai