Johann[es] Hoffert [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Christian, age 20; Henrietta, age 17½; Wilhelm, age 17; Sophia, age 14; Joseph, age 9½; Charlotta, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 148 along with a note that Johannes was widowed on 25 October 1767.
(1) Christian Hubert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr052.
Christian Hubert and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 52.
(2) Wilhelm Hubert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr094.
The death of Wilhelm Hubert in 1809 is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 94.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Hoffert [sic] came from the German village of Zebrik [?] in the Nassau region.
1811 Warenburg Census (Households No. 51, 52, 94, 103, 112).
- 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): Wr052, Wr094.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 343.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2951.
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