Johann Joseph Horn, a farmer, his wife Maria Margaretha, and children (Anna Maria, age 13; Johann Christian, age 11; Anna Helena, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a Danish galliot named Der Engel Rafael (Archangel Raphael) under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
Joseph Horn, his wife Maria Margreta, and children (Anna Maria, age 14; Christian Mathias, age 12; Catarina Elisabet, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Horn, a farmer, his [new?] wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Anna Margaretha [sic], age 16; Christian Mattias, age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 45. They had settled in Laub on 15 September 1767.
Descendants of this family moved to the daughter colony of Neu-Laub before 1862.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Joseph Horn came from the German region of Böhmen (Bohemia). The 1767 census records that Joseph Horn came from the German village of Kloster in the district of Böhmen (Bohemia).
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 444.
- 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): Lb02.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3463.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2732-2736.
Brent Mai