Johann Benedikt, his wife Barbara, and children (Margaretha, age 20; Margaretha [again], age 7; Katharina, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Benedict, his wife Barbara, and daughters (Margaretha, age 20; Margaretha [again], age 14; Katharina, age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Katharina died en route.
Margaretha Benedikt (age 12) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 21 along with her stepfather Franz Reischenberg and a note that she settled in the colony of Zürich in 1768. [The wife of Franz Reischenberg was Margaretha's stepmother (based upon her age), so he is not technically her stepfather, but rather her stepmother's husband.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Johann Benedikt came. The 1767 census does not record from where Margaretha Benedikt came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Benedikt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 845.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 267.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6839.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4737-4741.
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