Andreas Geiger, a farmer, his wife Regina, and children (Johann, age 30; Barbara, age 26; Anna, age 18; Apollonia, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Andreas Geiger, his wife Regina, and children (Joh. Mich. [age not recorded]; Barbara, age 18; Anna Marta, age 16; Apollonia, age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Andreas and daughters Barbara & Anna Marta died in route.
It is not known in which colony this Geiger family settled.
Surviving daughter Apollonia [Geiger] is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux as an orphan along withe the Leonhard Vogel family in Household No. 13. [See Vogel Family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Geiger came from the German region of Bayreuth.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Geiger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 164.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4601.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5520-5525.
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