Adam Demler, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann [Peter] (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Adam Dömler died during the journey from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. His widow remarried to Michael Eberlein.
Michael Eberlein, a farmer, his [new] wife Anna Appolonia [widow of Adam Demler], children (Sophia, age 10; Christina, age 8), and stepson Johann Peter [Demler] (age 7) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Demler came from the German region of Darmstadt.
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