There are two Herber families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert. They both settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab on 8 July 1767.
(1) Widow Anna Herber and her children (Johann, age 25; Konrad, age 19; Anna, age 14) arrived in Oranienbaum.
They are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Households No. 6 & No. 20.
Johannes Herber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb08.
Johann Georg Herber, son of Johannes Herber, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 92.
Johann Georg Herber, son of Johann Georg Herber, and his family moved from Schwab to Oberdorf in 1852.
Johann Georg Herber and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 11.
Johann Konrad Herber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb06.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Herber family came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that they came from the German village of Wehrshausen.
(2) Johannes Herber from the area of Darmstadt & Anna Catharina Stiehler were married on 3 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Herber, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann[es] Herber, a farmer, and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 2.
Johann[es] Herber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb23.
The death of Johannes Herber in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 6.
The death of Johann Heinrich [Peter] Herber, son of Johannes Herber, in 1840 is recorded on the 1850 census of Schwab in Household No. 6.
Johann Heinrich Herber, son of Johannes Herber, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 53.
Johannes Herber, son of Johannes Herber, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Holstein in Household No. 16 along with a note that he had died in 1832.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Herber came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Lipsa.
A third Herber family also settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab on 8 July 1767. They have not been located on the Oranienbaum passenger lists. Johannes Herber, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Anna Sophia (age 18-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 20. The 1767 census records that Johannes Herber came from the German village of Klausen [?].
The relationship among these Herber families, if there is one, needs further research.
- 1834 Schwab Census (Households No. 6, 19, 53, 92).
- 1850 Schwab Census (Households No. 6, 28, 87, 88, 134).
- 1857 Oberdorf Census (Household No. 11).
- 1857 Schwab Census (Households No. 6, 28, 87, 88, 134).
- 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): Sb06, Sb08, Sb23.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #359.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 127, 128, 131.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2586, #2589.
Brent Mai