Kaiser (Dönhof)
Jakob Kayser, son of cobbler Johann Adam Kayser & Anna Margarete Froschäuser, was born 8 July 1746 in Gelnhausen, east northeast of Frankfurt.
Jakob Kaÿser from Gelnhausen & Eliesabetha Firnberiger [sic] were married on 10 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Jakob and Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard Der Junge Mathias with skipper David Wollert at the helm. They arrived in the colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 60. They are still in Dönhof in 1798 recorded in Household No. Dh032 on the 1798 Census.
In 1788, Johann Adam Kaiser and his wife moved from Dönhof to Norka.
[Johann] Adam Kaiser from Dönhof and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr172.
The death of [Johann] Adam Kaiser in 1832 is recorded on the 1834 census of Norka in Household No. 280.
Adam Kaiser, son of Johann Adam Kaiser, and his family (including siblings) are recorded on the 1857 census of Norka in Household No. 324.
Johannes Kaiser, son of Johann Adam Kaiser, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Hoffental.
- 1834 Norka Census (Household No. 280).
- 1857 Hoffental Census.
- 1857 Norka Census (Household No. 324).
- Bonner, Wayne H. Volga German Settlers Identified in Isenburg and Other German Church Records Part I (Gardena, CA: Wayne Bonner, 2007): 43.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dh011, Dh32, Nr172, Mv0474.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #511.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 357.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 242.
Bill Pickelhaupt
Wayne Bonner
Brent Mai