Johann Michael Borgert [sic], his wife Anna, and children (Johann [Michael], age 14; [Johann] Georg, age 10¼; Anna, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Holstein on 7 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Michael Borger was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a carpenter (Zimmermann).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Michael Borgert [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Michael Borger came from the German village of Raibach near Darmstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 374.
- 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): Ho13, Ho29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 134.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2843.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Johann Michael Borgert and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.