Georg Freudenberg, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 16; Anna, age 12; Ludwig, age 10½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767. Georg Freidenberg [sic] (age 50), his wife Anna Eva (age 48), and children (Johannes, age 17; Anna Elisabeth, age 13; Johann Ludwig, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 12.
The 1798 census of Brabander records son Ludwig (from Keller) in Household No. Bn30.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Freudenberger came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Georg Freudenberg came from the German village of Kinzeldorf in the Kurmainz region. Researcher Anonymous2 reports that this family came from the German village of Bauerbach near Marburg.
- 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): 433.
- 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): Bn30, Dl22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 269.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3375.
Brent Mai
Anonymous2
Entry from the 1767 census of Dehler recording the family of Georg Freidenberg [sic].
Source: Anonymous2.