Johann Georg Birkner, his wife Maria, and daughter Magdalena (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Johann Geor. Birckner [sic], his wife Maria, and daughter Magdalena (age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Georg Birkner, a miller (Müller), his wife Maria, and daughter Maria (age 4) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya (No. 110) along with a note that they relocated to the Volga German colony of Wittmann in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Birkner came from the German village of Hallburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6722 [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 372.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4633-4635.
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