Two Kleber families arrived together from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Both of them arrived in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 May 1767.
(1) Jakob Kleber, a farmer, and his wife Christina arrived in Oranienbaum.
Jakob Kleber (age 30), a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 2.
(2) Max Kleber, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Margaretha (age 17¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Max Kleber (age 37), a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and [step-]sons (Andreas [Langmeier], age 16; Elias [Langmeier], age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 8. [See Langmeier Family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Max Kleber came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Jakob Kleber came from the village of Nienbrock in Denmark and that Max Kleber came from the village of Neubruck in Holstein.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 126.
- 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): Dn24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 297, 299.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #733, #734.
Brent Mai