Georg Konrad Grüninger, a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 19; Katharina, age 17¼; Anna Margaretha, age 11; Anna Gertrude, age 4½; Johann Kaspar, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Georg Conradt Grüning [sic], his wife Anna Barbara, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 19; Catrina, age 17; Anna Margretha, age 12; Gertraut, age 5; Johann Caspar, age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Gertraut died in route.
Johann Konrad Grein [sic], a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 19; Katharina, age 17; Margaretha, age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 43. They had arrived in Semenovka on 24 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Konrad Grüninger came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Konrad Grein came from the German village of Langen in the Darmstadt region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 787.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6293.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8537-8543.
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