Berns (Stahl am Tarlyk)
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Berns (Stahl am Tarlyk)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Klaus Berns, a farmer, his wife, and his stepchildren arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Berns came from the German village of Lonez in the Holstein region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 210.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3460.
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Brent Mai