The parish register of Münster records on 21 October 1658 the marriage of Adolph Karpf and Anna Barbara [surname not recorded].
The parish register of Münster records that Adolph Karpf, son of Adolph & Anna Barbara Karpf, married on 5 November 1689 to Elisabetha Margaretha Meckel [?] from Rödges.
The parish register of Münster records that Wigand Karpf, son of Adolph Karpf & Elisabetha Margaretha Meckel, married on 23 August 1725 to Katharina Alberts, daughter of Michael Alberts. She had been born 2 September 1705 in Ettingshausen.
Katharina Karpf née Alberts died, and Wigand Karpf remarried on 9 August 1735 to Katharina Römer, daughter of Nikolaus Römer.
The parish register of Münster records on 1 January 1727 the baptism of Johann Just Karpf, son of Wigand Karpf & Katharina Alberts. Johann Just Karpf married on 28 April 1764 to Anna Elisabetha Keil from Ettingshausen.
Johann Just Karpf [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Katharina (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
Johann Just Karpf (age 41), his wife Anna Elisabeth (age 31), and daughter (Maria Katharina, age 7-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 22. They had arrived in Müller on 16 August 1767.
Johann Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml17.
[Johann] Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Müller in Household No. 19.
[Johann] Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Müller in Household No. 33.
[Johann] Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Müller in Household No. 34.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Just Karpf [sic] came from the German region of Hohensolms. The 1767 census records that Johann Just Karpf came from the German village of Ober-Bessingen.
- 1834 Müller Census (Household No. 19).
- 1850 Müller Census (Households No. 33, 34).
- 1857 Müller Census (Households No. 34, 35).
- 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): 608.
- 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): Ml17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 180.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4873.
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