Johannes Giebelhaus and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the pink Lev under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 109.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Giebelhaus was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he is a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both of these documents record that Johannes Giebelhaus came from the German district of Isenburg, although the 1767 census also adds the term Magdeburg, which doesn't appear to be near the Isenburg area.
- 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): Nr005, Nr034, Nr079.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 258.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2327.
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