Christoph Jaricke, a single tanner, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair along with his brother Friedrich Lehmann.
Peter Görecke [sic], his [new] wife Juliana Maria, and step-daughter Anna Dorothea [surname not recorded, age not recorded] are recorded on a list of colonists being transferred from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with his brother Friederich [sic] Lehmann.
Christoph Jarke [sic], a leather worker (Lederarbeiter), his [new] wife Julianna, son Valentin (age 4-months), and [step-]daughter (Dorothea [surname not recorded], age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 130. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Jaricke came from the German village of Quedlinburg. The 1767 census records that Christoph Jarke [sic] came from the German village of Quedlinburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 304.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1423.
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