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Emmert (Pfeifer)*

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Emmert (Pfeifer)*
Эмертъ (Pfeifer)*
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Discussion & Documentation

Johann Emmert, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Agnessa, and daughters (Maria Walpurgia, age 2½; Barbara, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

Johann Emmert, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Agnessa, and daughter Maria Walpurga (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 50. They had arrived in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767.

Katharina Wachmeister née Emmert, presumed daughter of Johann Emmert, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf29.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Emmert came from the German region of Fulda.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources

- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 639.
- 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): Pf29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 389.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5126.

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Brent Mai

Volga Colonies