Johann Klebenspies, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and sons (Georg, age 20; Michael, age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johann Klebeckspiss [sic] (age 38), a farmer, and his [new] wife Anna Margaretha [widow Bierwert] (age 29) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 72 along with his sons (Hans Georg, age 19; Michael, age 18) and [step-son] Joseph [Bierwert] (age 6). They had arrived in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767. [See Bierwert Family.]
The 1798 census of Husaren records Michael Klebenspies from Pfeifer in Household No. Hn01.
The death of Michael Klebenspies in 1823 is recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 36.
The death of Georg Klebenspies in 1820 is recorded onthe 1834 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 22.
Neither of these brothers appear to have had any surviving male lines among the Volga German colonies.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Klebenspies came from the German region of Franken (Franconia). The 1767 census records that Johann Klebenspies came from the German village of Hammelburg in Franken (Franconia).
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 36).
- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Household No. 22).
- 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): 631.
- 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): Hn01, Pf32.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 395.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5067.
Brent Mai