Georg Degener, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and [step-]son Konrad [Siebert] (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Georg Degener, his wife Cathrina, and [step-]son Conrad [Siebert] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Cathrina died en route.
Anna Maria [sic] Degner and stepson Konrad Seibert are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 50 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Luzern in 1768.
Konrad Degner [sic] is recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. 44, but subsequent censuses record his surname as Siebert.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Degeners came from the German region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Degener family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Lz44.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 359.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4642.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5906-5908.
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