Johann [Daniel] Jakoby, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughters (Maria, age 9; Anna, age 5¼; Susanna, age 2½), and sister Maria (age 36) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Daniel Jacoby, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and his sister Maria Eva (32) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 106. They had arrived in Norka on 15 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Jakoby came from the German region of Baden. The 1767 census records that Daniel Jakoby came from the German region of Pfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jacoby family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 478.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 257.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3736.
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