Jost Kindler [sic], a single butcher (Fleischer), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Just Ludwig Kinkler, a farmer, and his wife Eleonora are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 88 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
This is believed to be the same Jost Kindrer from Schaffhausen whose widow and daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur10.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jost Kindler came from the German region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kinkler/Kindrer line among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 687.
- 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): Ur10.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 366.
Brent Mai