Heinrich Burger [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and sons (Georg Martin, age 9; Georg Anton, age 4; Jakob Michael, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the pink Slon [English: Elephant] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Hermann Borger, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and sons (Georg Martin, age 10; Anton, age 4; Jakob Michael, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 46. They had settled there on 24 July 1767.
Georg [Martin] Borger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se45.
The death of Georg Borger in 1830 is recorded on the 1834 census of Semenovka in Household No. 128.
The 1767 census records that Hermann Borger came from the German village of Sendelbach in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Borger family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Semenovka Census (Household No. 128).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 891.
- 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): Se45.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 189.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7290.
Brent Mai