Andreas Birig, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Johann [August], age 17½; Georg, age 10¼; Gottlieb, age 7; Katharina, age 4; Maria, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel where son August is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Dt73. Son Johann Georg Birig from Dietel is recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br55.
Friedrich Jacob Philipp Bierich from Messer and his family are recorded on the 1834-1850 Messer Family List in Household No. 238.
Johann Jakob Bierig and his family moved from Neu-Bauer to Stavropol in 1897.
Heinrich Bierig moved from Neu-Bauer to Armavir in 1897.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Bierig came from the German region of Danzig.
- 1834-1845 Bauer Communion Register (Household No. 54).
- 1834-1850 Messer Family List (Household No. 238).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 95.
- Lauk, Emma & Mina Wiens. Familienchronik von Neu-Bauer, 1858-1941: Von Gründung bis Deportation (Schweinfurt / Bankenburg, 2023): 84-85.
- 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): Br55, Dt73, Dt74.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #438.
Brent Mai