Martin Emmert, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
Martin Emmert, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Maria Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 15 November 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.
Jakob Emmert, presumed son of Martin Emmert, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms12.
Elisabeth Röhmer née Emmert from Messer, presumed daughter of Martin Emmert, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd81.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Martin Emert came from the German region of Ansbach.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 53.
- 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): Bd81, Ms12.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 138.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #74.
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