Michael Jesserich, a farmer, and his wife [Joh]Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Michael Goesserich and his wife Johanna are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Michael Jeserich, a farmer, and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.
Brothers Heinrich & Karl Gesrin [sic] are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh36.
The death of Heinrich Jeserich in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. 116.
Johann Karl Jeserich and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. 101.
By the 1850s, this family has relocated to the daughter colony of Gnadenflur.
Alexander Jeserich and his family are recorded on the 1920 census of Gnadenflur in Household No. 59.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Jeserich came from the German region of Brandenburg. The 1767 census records that Michael Jeserich came from the German village of Holz [?].
This surname has been translated in various documents with a variety of spellings including Gesrin, Goesserich, Göttsreich, Gössrich, Gösserich, Jeserek, Jeserich, and Jesserich.
- 1834 Schaffhausen Census (Households No. 101, 116).
- 1920 Gnadenflur Census (Household No. 59).
- 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): 556.
- 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): Sh36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 265.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4350.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5121-5122.
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