Georg Hornlein and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Georg Hornlein and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died en route.
Johann Georg Hornlein, a barber (Friseur), and his [new] wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 29 along with his stepson Nikolaus Müller (age 14).
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Gernleier came from the German village of Bemstein [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gernleier 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): 842.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 1999): 201.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6809.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4195-4196.
Brent Mai
Waldemar Kurt
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Georg Hornlein and his wife Maria.
Source: Brent Mai.