Nicolaus Burck [sic], son of Nicolaus Burck, was born 3 November 1720 in Sterzhausen.
He married on 12 April 1740 to Margretha Lauchel.
The parish register of Sterzhausen records on 29 January 1746 the birth of Nicolaus Burck [sic], son of Nicolaus Burck & Margretha Lauchel.
Nikolaus Borg, his wife Margaretha, and son Nikolaus (age 20) 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.
Traveling with them is Johann Borg and his wife Sophia. Johann is believed to be the son of Nikolaus.
Nicolaus Borck, his wife Margaretha, and son Nicolaus (age 20) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. Next to them on the list are Johann Borck and his wife Sophia.
Nikolaus Borg, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Nikolaus (age 21) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 112 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1768.
In 1786, Nikolaus Burg and his family moved from Nieder-Monjou to the Caucasus.
Johannes Borg, a farmer, and his wife Sophia are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 52.
Johannes Borg from Cäsarsfeld is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka097.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Borg came from the German region of Hessen.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Borg came from the German village of Stürzhausen [Sterzhausen?]
Some translations record this surname as Burg.
- 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): 869-870.
- 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): Ka097, Mv1895.
- Parish register of Sterzhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 206.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 223.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7078, #7079.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3900-3904.
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Entry from the parish register of Sterzhausen recording the birth of Nicolaus Burck on 3 November 1720.
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Entry from the parish register of Sterzhausen recording the marriage of Nicolaus Burck & Margaretha Lauchel on 12 April 1740.
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Entry from the parish register of Sterzhausen recording the birth of Nicolaus Burck on 29 January 1746.
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