The St. Martini Parish register of Stolberg records the births and baptisms of the following children of Johann Tobias Berg, a meal miller (Mahlmüller): (1) Anna Katharina Phillipina, born 7 July 1743, died 7 July 1743; (2) Christoph Ludewig, born 9 June 1744, baptized 12 June 1744; (3) Johann Mathias, born 20 August 1746, baptized 22 August 1746; (4) Johann Conrad Heinrich, born 21 June 1747, baptized 23 June 1747; (5) Johann Christoph, born 8 September 1750, baptized 10 September 1750; and (6) Johann Andreas, born 10 July 1753, baptized 13 July 1753.
Tobias Berg, a miller (Müller), his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann Christoph, age 18; Andreas, age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Joh. Tobias Berg, his wife Catharina, and sons (Joh. Christoph, age 18; Joh. Andreas, age 14) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Catharina and son Joh. Andreas died en route.
Tobias Berg, a miller (Müller), his [new] wife Katharina, son Christoph (age 18), and [step-]daughter Maria [surname not recorded] (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 48. They had arrived in Boisroux on 3 August 1767.
The widow and children of Christoph Berg are recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Tobias Berg came from the German region of Stolberg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German the region of Silkerode.
- 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): Bx43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 151.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4298.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4981-4984.
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Entry from the St. Martini Parish Register in Solberg recording the birth/baptism of Johann Christoph Berg in 1750.
Source: Kristina Yakovlev.
Entry from the St. Martini Parish Register in Solberg recording the birth/baptism of Johann Andreas Berg in 1753.
Source: Kristina Yakovlev.
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