Widow Anna Funk, and her children (Johann, age 14; Kaspar, age 12; Johannes, age 10) along with Heinrich Funk [presumed to be an older son] and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Widow Anna Funk and her children (Joh. Heinrich, age 14; Joh. Caspar, age 12; Johannes, age 10¼) along with Heinrich Philip Funk and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that widow Anna Funk died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
Kaspar Funk is recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm36.
Johannes Funk is recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm43.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Funk came from the German village of Rittershausen in the region of Friedberg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Bs24, Nm36, Nm43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 194.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4684, #4685.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2811-2816.
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