Widow Maria Arnbrecher [sic], a farmer's wife, and her children (Johann, age 16¼; Katharina, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Georg Arnbrecht [sic] (age 17) and his sister Katharina (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 70 as the stepchildren of Jost Lehr. They had arrived in Messer on 18 June 1767.
Johann Georg Albrecht from Messer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk23. Albrecht continues through additional census documents in 1834 and 1857.
The Oranienbaum passenger and the 1767 census record that Johannes Albrecht came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): 251.
- 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): Ms73.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 148.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1798.
Brent Mai