Nikolaus Knecht, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Christina, and children (Margaretha, age 11; Barbara, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum aboard the 15 September 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Nicolaus Knecht, his wife Christina, and daughters (Barbara, age 11; Margaretha, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both daughters died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 23 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Knecht came from the German village of Altenstein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 323.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7246.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8645-8648.
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