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 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
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.
- 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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