Bartholomeus Kern, a miller, his wife Rosina, and son Anton arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Bartholomeus Kern, a miller (Müller), and his wife Rosina are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 34. They had arrived in Seelmann on 16 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Bartholomeus Kern came from Hungary. The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Triberg in the region of Schwarzwald.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kern family among the Volga German colonies.
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