Albert (Zug)
Peter Albert, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Peter Albert is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Albrecht [sic] and his [new] wife Arnolda [Deisling] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 30.
Peter Albert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg09.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Albert came from France. The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Tionam [?] in France.
- 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): Zg09.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 329.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4484.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4862.
Brent Mai