Karl Christian König, a single official in charge (Sachbearbeiter), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Carl Christian König is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Karl Christian König, a single pastor, settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 11 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Christian König came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Karl Christian König came from the German village of Altenburg in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this König family among the Volga German colonies.
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