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Синцлеръ*
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Wernerus Sintzler [sic], a single physician (Arzt), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Jacobus Wernerus Sintzler [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Jacobus Wernerus Sinsler, a physician (Arzt), and his [new] wife Amalia arrived in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wernerus Sitzler [sic] came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Jacobus Wernerus Sinsler came from the German region of Würzburg.

Sources

- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 288.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 418.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2095.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1721.

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