Kaspar Duxberg, a weaver (Leineweber), his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 4; Johann, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Caspar Duxberg and his wife Anna are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died en route.
Kaspar Wilhelm Duxberg, a linenweaver (Leineweber), and his wife Elisabeth [Feldmann] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 56.
The widow of Wilhelm Duxberg from Cäsarsfeld is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka039 living with her son Johann Kornelius Duxberg.
The death of Kornelius Duxberger [sic] in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 57.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Wilhelm Duxberg came from the German village of Schwelm in the Brandenburg region.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 57).
- 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): Ka039.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4474.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4326-4327.
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