Johann Valentin Kisserling, a weaver (Weber), and his wife [Anna] Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Valentin Kisserling, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 9-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 30. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Valentin Kisserling came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Welferode.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 534.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 182.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4136 (p. 272).
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