Kaspar Kaiser, a carpenter, his wife Walpurgia, son Franz (age 20), and [step-children] Johann [Hartung] (age 11) and Magdalena [Hartung] (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Casper Kayser [sic], his wife Walburgis [sic], son Frantz Kejser, and [step-children] Conrad [Hartung] (age 11) and Magdalena [Hartung] (age 7) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Kaspar Kaiser, a mason (Mason), and his wife Wapurga are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 42 along with step-children (Valentin Hartung, age 16; Leonhard Hartung, age 11; Magdalena Hartung, age 8). Son Franz Kaiser is recorded on the list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 43 along with his [new] wife Margaretha [widow of Adam Hack] and her son Konrad Hack [sic] (age 7).
Konrad Haak is recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz36, so it is assumed that this Kaiser family also settled in Luzern.
Ursula Kaiser née Waldschmidt, presumed widow of Franz Kaiser, is recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz31 along with her children [with the surname of Begler]. See Begler Family.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Kaiser came from the German village of Blin (?). The 1767 census records that son Franz Kaiser came from the German village of Tittling.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kaiser family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Lz31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 357.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4584.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5831-5835.
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