Anker

Spelling Variations:

Anger

Анкеръ

Anker

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Göbel

Köhler

Pre-Volga Origin:

Wien (Stadt), Wien, Austria

Discussion & Documentation:

Michael Angert [sic], a single miller (Müller), arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka 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 1767 census records that Michael Anger came from the town of Wien (Vienna) in Austria.

Sources:

- 1834 Köhler Census (Household No. 163).
- 1850 Köhler Census (Household No. 227).
- 1850 Köhler Census (Household No. 240).
- 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.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai

Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Michael Anker.
Source: Brent Mai.

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies