Nikolaus [Joseph] Dar, his wife Anna, daughter Marianna (age 4), and sister Katharina [Guldrich] (age 45) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 15 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
Wilhelm Dar, presumed to be the son of Nikolaus Dar, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf49.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Dar was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a embroiderer using pearl (Goldsticker).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Dar came from England. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Joseph Dar came from the English town of Nottingham.
- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Households No. 50, 53, 103).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 354.
- 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): Pf49.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 383.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2673.
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