Johann Nikolaus Hirsch, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Teresia, age 3¼; Johann, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Johann Nicolaus Hirsch, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Theresia, age 5; Johann, age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Maria and son Johann died in route.
Johann Nikolaus Hirsch, a glaser (Glasier), his [new] wife Maria, and daughter Maria [sic] (age 4) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 103.
The 1767 census records that Johann Nikolaus Hirsch came from Wald-Michelbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hirsch 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): 838.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 371.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6746 - not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4676-4679.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
Volga Colonies
Family Photos
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Nikolaus Blehm and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.