Konrad Jordan, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Margaretha, age 13; Elisabeth, age 10½; Friedrich, age 9; Johann, age 6; Kaspar, age 4; Konrad, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Konrad died after arriving in Russia. His widow Katharina remarried to Johann Grauberger, and they settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767.
The combined Jordan and Grauberger families are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 21.
Friedrich Jordan (some translations erroneously record the surname as Erdan) from Dietel is recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs016.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Jordan came from the German region of Friedberg. The 1767 census records that the Jordan family came from the German village of Rickling near Frankfurt am Main.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 635.
- 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): Hs016.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 288.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5096.
Brent Mai