Nikolaus Borg, his wife Margaretha, and son Nikolaus (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Traveling with them is Johann Borg and his wife Sophia. Johann is believed to be the son of Nikolaus.
Nicolaus Borck, his wife Margaretha, and son Nicoluas (age 20) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. Next to them on the list are Johann Borck and his wife Sophia.
Nikolaus Borg, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Nikolaus (age 21) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 112 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1768.
In 1786, Nikolaus Burg and his family moved from Nieder-Monjou to the Caucasus.
Johannes Borg, a farmer, and his wife Sophia are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 52.
Johannes Borg from Cäsarsfeld is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka097.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Borg came from the German region of Hessen.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Borg came from the German village of Stürzhausen [Sterzhausen?]
Some translations record this surname as Burg.
- 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): Ka097, Mv1895.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 206.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 223.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7078, #7079.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3900-3904.
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