Korger*

There are two Korger families who traveled together to Russia. They are assumed to be mother and son, but further research is needed to confirm this relationship.

(1) Widow Cunigunda Korger and her children (Anna, age 19; Eva, age 12; Margaretha, age 12; Hans, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

The widow of Heinrich Hoherher [sic] and her children (Anna, age 21; Margaretha, age 12; Eva, age 9; Johannes, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

The surviving son of this family (Johannes/Hans, age 10) settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43, living with his brother-in-law Johannes Göringer. Göringer's wife, Barbara, however, is not recorded as one of the children of Cunigunda Korger on the Oranienbaum passenger list.

Johannes Korger from Hölzel and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb48.

(2) Johannes Korger, a farmer, and his wife Agness arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

Johannes Korger and his wife Agnes are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Their orphaned daughter, Anna Margaretha, is recorded on the 1767 census of the Volga German colony of Rohleder in Household No. 50 living with Johannes Pommer and his wife, Maria Theresia.

The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Pommer and the Korger families although they did arrive in Oranienbaum on the same ship.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that these Korger families came from the German region of Bamberg.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.