Hermann [sic] Kopek [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Valentin (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
Father Peter [sic] Koreka died along with his wife. Son Valentin settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 28 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20 along with Just Freude and his wife. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Koreka and Freude families.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Koreka family came from the German region of Kolognik?.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 453.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 219.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3530.
Brent Mai