Georg Herrnsdörfer, a farmer, his wife Ottilia, and daughter Magdalena (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Georg Herrnsdörfer, his wife Ottia, and daughter Magdalena (age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Georg Geritzdorf [sic] (age 50), his wife Ottilia (age 29), and stepdaughter Margaretha [surname not recorded] (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 42. They had arrived in Hölzel on 11 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Herrnsdörfer came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Georg Geritzdorf [sic] came from the German village of Neubrunn in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 768.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 119.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6145.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7604-7606.
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