Berger (Beideck)*
Jakob Berger, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann Peter, age 3½; Johann, age 2¼; Georg [Philipp], age 3-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Röder.
Jakob Berger, his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Georg Philipp, age 9; Anna Katharina, age 7; Johannes, age 5; Johannes, age ¼) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 31 along with two orphans Christian & Anna Katharina whose surname was also Berger.
Christian Berger is recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd89.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Berger came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Berger family among the Volga German coonies.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 31).
- 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): Bd89.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #231.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Jakob Berger and his family (#231).
Source: Brent Mai.