Friedrich Korndgolt [sic], a farmer, his wife Christina, and [step-]children (Peter, age 16¼; Anna, age 6 [surnames not recorded]) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Johann Friedrich Karnholz [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Christina, and step-son Wilhelm Peter [surname not recorded] (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 49. They had arrived in Stahl am Tarlyk on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Korndgolt [sic] came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that he came from the German town of Rostock in the Mecklenburg region.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendants 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): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 340.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 215.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2533.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Friedrich Korngold and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.