Ignatius Hohenfertzen [sic], a farmer, his wife Sophia, and daughter Johanna [sic] (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Ignatius Hohfelder [sic], his wife Maria Sophia, and daughter Justina (age 7) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Ignatius Hohenfelser [sic], a glazier (Glaser), his wife Sophia, and daughters (Justina, age 7; Johanna, age 3-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 62.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Ignatius came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 209.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1333, #4229.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5564-5566.
Brent Mai
Waldemar Kurt
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Ignatius Hohenfertzen [sic] and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.
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