The marriage of Johann Alburg & Dorothea Elisabeth Jungt is recorded on 25 July 1766 in the parish register of Coswig:
"den 25. Juni 1766 - Ist Johann Alburg aus dem Brandenburgschen gebürtig, Kaiserlicher Russischer Kolonist und Dorothea Elisabeth Jungtin Ziegelstreichers Tochter in Schönhagen in hiesiger Kirche getraut worden."
[Translation: "On 25 June 1766, Johann Alburg, imperial Russian colonist who was born in Brandenburg, and Dorothea Elisabeth Jungt, daughter of the bricklayer in Schönhagen, were married in the local church."]
Johann Alburg and his wife Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Johann Alburg, his wife Dorothea, and daughter Sophia Juliana (born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Alburg, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and daughter Julianna (age 2-months) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 29) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
Widow Anna Dorothea Alburg née Junger [sic] and her son Johann Friedrich are recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs17.
The 1767 census records that Johann Alburg came from the German village of Malberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this 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): 840.
- 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): Bs17.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6768 [not recorded in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Parish register of Coswig.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 355.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4174-4176.
Brent Mai
Karl Becker
Entry from the parish register in Coswig recording the marriage of Johann Alburg and Dorothea Elisabeth Jungt on 25 June 1766.
Source: Karl Becker.
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Alborg and his wife Dorothea.
Source: Brent Mai.