Gottfried Gilbrig and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Gottfried Gilbrig and his wife Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Gottfried Gilbrig, a linen weber (Leineweber), and his wife Maria are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 28) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Gilbrig came from the German village of Döbeln.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gilbrig family among the Volga German colonies.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6643 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 355.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4067-4068.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Gottfried Gilbrig and his wife.
Source: Brent Mai.
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