Johann Christian Jänicke [sic], a single carpenter (Zimmermann), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
Friedrich Enike, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Elisabeth settled in the Volga German village of Urbach on 13 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Christian Jänicke [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony) The 1767 census records that Friedrich Enike came from the German village of Barby in the Sachsen (Saxony) region and that his wife came from the German village of Busecker Tal in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 421.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 271.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3273.
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