Cecilia Christians [sic], a single woman, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Cicilia [sic] Christians [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Cecilia Christiansen, a single woman, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Houehold No. 80.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Cecilia Christians [sic] came from the German region of Danzig. The 1767 census records that she came from the German village of Rikomkin in the Danzig region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Christiansen family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 213.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4516.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4352.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list (#4516) recording the arrival in Russia of Cecilia Christians.
Source: Brent Mai.
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