Sebastian Kirchner, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and children (Johann Kaspar, age 14; Katharina, age 11) arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Sebastian Kirch [sic], his wife Magdalena, and children (Casper, age 14; Anna Catrina, age 11; Zacharias, born en route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony this Kirchner family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Sebastian Kirchner came from the German region of Fulda.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kirchner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 719.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5745.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2602-2606.
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