Konrad Köhler, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johannes, age 33; Anna, age 18; Konrad, age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Konrad died and his wife remarried to Valentin Markus. They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and the combined Markus and Köhler families are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Köhler came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that son Konrad Heinrich Keller came from the German village of Alsfeld in the Darmstadt region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 465.
- 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): Ks027.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 424.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3630.
Brent Mai