Christoph [sic] Ferkert, a single miller, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Andreas [sic] Ferkert, a miller (Müller), and his wife Sophia settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 63.
Heinrich Ferkert, probable son of Christoph/Andreas Ferkert, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx20.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph [sic] Ferkert came from the German region of Breslau. The 1767 census records that Andreas [sic] Ferkert came from the German region of Breslau.
There are no surviving male lines of this Ferkert family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Bx20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 154.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4430.
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