Christian Günther, a farmer, his wife Eva, and daughter Katharina (age ¾) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
Christian Günther from Orlovskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx42.
Martin Günther, son of Christian Günther, from Boisroux and his son are recorded on the 1811 census of Fischer in Household No. 4.
The death of Christian Günther in 1827 is recorded on the 1834 census of Boisroux in Household No. 114.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Günther came from the German region of Erbach.
- 1811 Fischer Census (Household No. 4).
- 1834 Orlovskaya Census (Households No. 93, 114).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 48.
- 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): Bx42.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #24.
Brent Mai