Nikolaus Janet and his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Nicolaus Schuket [sic], his wife Magdalena, and daughter Frideria [sic] (born en route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov along with a note that newborn daughter Frideria also died before reaching the colonies.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. Nikolaus is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 146 along with a new wife Maria Margaretha.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Jacqnet [sic] was a joiner while the 1767 census records that he was a carpenter (Tischler).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Nikolaus Janet came from the village of Liege [Belgium].
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): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 307.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4482.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4859-4861.
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