Kirchner (Jost)
Georg Wilhelm Kirchner & Margaretha Hentze were married on 9 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Georg Kirchner, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Margaretha 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 Jost on 5 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
The 1798 census of Bauer records Gottfried Kirchner from Jost in Household No. Br22.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Kirchner came from the German village of Erfurt in the Thüringen region.
- 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): Br22, Jo50.
- 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): #925.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 197.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1097.
Brent Mai