Widow Susanna Greis [sic] and her children (Johann Jakob, age 18; Maria Katharina, age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
Widow Susanna Elisabeth Griess and her children (Johann Jakob, age 19; Maria Katharina, age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 33. They had settled there on 15 August 1767.
Susanna along with her son Jakob and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 205.
The death of Jakob Griess in 1801 is recorded on the 1811 census of Norka in Household No. 217.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Susanna Elisabeth Griess came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 205).
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 217).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 611.
- 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): Nr216.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 237.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4892.
Brent Mai