Kessler (Warenburg)
Spelling Variations:
Kessler (Warenburg)
Кеслеръ (Warenburg)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Gottlieb Kessler, a joiner (Tischler), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Gottlieb Kessler came from the German village of Schmiedeberg.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 330.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1091.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai