Michael Angert [sic], a single miller (Müller), arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Michael Anger [sic] settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 72.
Mattias [sic] Anker from Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl19.
The death of Christoph Anker, son of Michael Anker, in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 163.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Angert [sic] came from Austria. The 1767 census records that Michael Anger came from the town of Wien (Vienna) in Austria.
- 1834 Köhler Census (Household No. 163).
- 1850 Köhler Census (Household No. 227).
- 1850 Köhler Census (Household No. 240).
- 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): 97.
- 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): Kl19.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 58.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #449.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Michael Anker.
Source: Brent Mai.