Elisabeth Hornung, a single woman, 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.
Elisabeth Hornung is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Maria Elisabeth Ordnung [sic], a single woman, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 50 along with a note that she relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Maria Elisabeth Ordnung [sic] came from the German village of Lage.
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): 830.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6661 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 332.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4085.
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