Gottfried Achtziger, a blacksmith, his wife Christina, and son Johann Christian (age 6) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
This family has not been located on the 1767 census, but they may have originally settled in Hussenbach [for which a copy of the 1767 census has not been located] as several other families on this ship are recorded in Hussenbach.
Gottfried Achtzig[er] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kolb in Household No. Ko05.
Friedrich Achtziger and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kolb in Household No. 47. His brother Johannes Reinhard and family are recorded there in Household No. 78.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Achtziger came from the area of Danzig.
- 1834 Kolb Census (Households No. 47, 78).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 50.
- 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): Ko05.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #44.
Brent Mai