Ilgner
Spelling Variations:
Ilgner
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Christoph Ilgner, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Christina, and son Johann (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Ilgner came from the German village of Reichenbach in Schlesien (Silesia).
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 325.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1133.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai