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Jacobi / Jacoby (Norka-1)

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Johannes Jacoby, a miller, his wife Susanna, and sons (Philipp, age 16¼; Johann, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.

Widow Susanna Jacoby (age 36) and her sons (Johann Philipp, age 16; Johann Georg, age 9) are recorded there on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 82. They had arrived in Norka on 15 August 1767.

[Widow] Susanna Jacoby (age 61) is possibly recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr225.

Philipp Jacoby and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kutter in Household No. Kt34.

Georg Jacoby and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb47.

The death of Georg Jacoby in 1824 is recorded on the 1834 census of Laub in Household No. 55.

The death of Georg Adam Jacoby, son of Georg Jacoby, in 1844 is recorded on the 1850 census of Laub in Household No. 16.

Ludwig & Georg Jacoby, sons of Georg Adam Jacoby, and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Laub in Household No. 20.

Ludwig Jacoby [from Laub] and his family are recorded on the 1862 census of Neu-Laub.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Jacoby family came from the German region of Isenburg.

Sources

- 1834 Laub Census (Households No. 6, 12, 55).
- 1850 Laub Census (Household No. 9, 16, 93, 94).
- 1857 Laub Census (Household No. 10, 20, 21, 104, 105).
- 1862 Neu-Laub Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 345.
- 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): Kt34, Lb47, Nr225.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 251.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2584.

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Brent Mai