Gottlieb Bahn, a tailor, his wife Maria, and son Johann (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Gottlieb Fried. Bahn, his [new?] wife Maria Doroth., son Joh. Frieder. (age 13), and [step-?]daughter Charlotta [surname not recorded] (age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottlieb Friedrich Bahn, a tailor (Schneider), his [new?] wife Dorothea, and [step-?]children (Daniel [surname not recorded], age 20; Eleonora [surname not recorded], age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 33. They had arrived in Boisroux on 7 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottlieb Bahn came from the German village of Köthen. The 1767 census records that Gottlieb Friedrich Bahn came from the German village of Köthen.
[Some translations record this surname as Bohle.]
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bahn family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 147.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1571.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1257-1260.
Brent Mai
Waldemar Kurt
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Gottlieb Bahn and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.
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