Johann Philipp Kaiser, son of Peter & Catharina Kaiser, was born 1 June 1741 in the German village of Eckartshausen.
He married in Eckartshausen on 10 August 1764 to Catharina Scheidmantel, daughter of Johann Adam & Catharina Scheidmantel. She had been baptized in Düdelsheim on 27 September 1744.
Philipp Kaiser, his wife Katharina, his mother-in-law Katharina [Scheidmantel], his brother-in-law Konrad [Scheidmantel] (age 17¼), and sisters (Susanna, age 20; Elisabeth, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a boat named Saratov under the command of Midshipman Ivan Korsakov.
Philipp Kaiser, his wife Katharina, [sister-in-law] Anna Elisabeth [Schneidmantel] (age 12), and mother[-in-law] Anna Katharina [Schneidmantel] (age 46) are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 45. They had settled there on 18 June 1767.
The 1857 Balzer Census records in Household No. 48 that Georg Heinrich Kaiser moved to the colony of Straub.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Kaiser was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a hosier (Strumpfwirker).
Both documents record that Philipp Kaiser came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1857 Balzer Census (Household No. 48).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 183.
- 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): Bz008, Bz098.
- Parish records of Eckartshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 84.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1213.
Wayne Bonner
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Entry in the parish register of Eckartshausen recording the birth of Johann Philipp Kaiser on 1 June 1741.
Source: Kathleen Reilly.