Anna Margaretha Bieber arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev along with her sister Elisabeth and brother-in-law Johann Heinrich Kinzel. [See Kinzel Family.]
Anna Margaretha [Bieber] is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 205 along with her sister Elisabeth and brother-in-law Johann Heinrich Kinzel. They had arrived in Norka on 2 September 1767.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bieber family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 607.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 285.
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