Orphan Konrad Folnis (age 16) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 56 along with the Johann Kaspar Schmidt family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Folnis and Schmidt families.
His is assumed to have settled in the colony of Hockerberg because that's where the Schmidt family settled.
The Schmidt family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen. Arriving with them were widow Anna Magel and her children (Johann, age 16¼; Katharina, age 12).
Widow Anna Magel and her children (Conrad, age 16¼; Margaretha, age 12) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Idt & Rauschenbach propose that this Johann Magel is the same person as Konrad Folnis.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 505.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 362.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3972.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5225-5227.
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