Gottfried Köhler, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Charlotta, age 7; Johann, age 6; Johannes, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Gottfried Köhler, a farmer, his wife Anna Rosina Friebel, and children (Sophia Charlotta, age 11; Johann Gottlieb, age 7; Johannes, age 5; Gustav Johannes, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 1. They had arrived in Köhler on 10 August 1767.
Gottfried Köhler served as the first mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony that bears his name.
Gottlieb Keller and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Köhler in Household No. 238 along with a note that they relocated to the daughter colony of Marienfeld in 1852.
Gottlieb Keller from Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Köhler came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Gottfried Köhler came from the German village of Freyburg in Sachsen (Saxony).
- 1834 Köhler Census (Households No. 15, 23, 36, 94, 162).
- 1857 Köhler Census (Household No. 238).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 799.
- 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): Kl09, Kl14, Kl21, Kl22, Kl88.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 359.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6398.
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