Kaiser (Norka-3)
Johann Peter Kaÿser from Keffenroth & Catharina Weinberger from Kirchbracht were married on 28 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. Catharina Weinberger is the daughter of the deceased Christoph Weinberger [see Weinberger family].
Peter Kaiser, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Peter Kayser and his wife Catrina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Catrina died en route.
Peter Kaiser, a farmer, and his [new] wife Anna Maria [née Kuhl] (widow of Heinrich Schäfer) settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 26 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No.191.
The Kaiser / Schäfer family is recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr198.
Research by Igor Plehve records that the following are children of Peter Kaiser & Anna Maria Kuhl:
[a] Elisabeth Kaiser who married Johann Konrad Zilg. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr158.
[b] Konrad Kaiser and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr147.
[c] Heinrich Peter Kaiser and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr151.
The death of [Heinrich] Peter Kaiser in 1828 is recorded on the 1834 census of Norka in Household No. 270.
Georg Kaiser, son of Heinrich Peter Kaiser, and his family (including siblings) are recorded on the 1857 census of Norka in Household No. 311.
Peter Kaiser, son of Heinrich Peter Kaiser, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Hoffental.
The death of Peter Kaiser in 1807 is recorded on the 1811 census of Norka in Household No. 199.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Peter Kaiser came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 199).
- 1834 Norka Census (Household No. 270).
- 1857 Hoffental Census.
- 1857 Norka Census (Household No. 311).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Nr147, Nr151, Nr158, Nr198.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #604.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 280.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3712.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2474-2475.
Brent Mai