Johann Michael Korntheuer & Christina Wagner were married on 15 July 1766 in Pastor Schmidt's house in Lübeck.
Michael Korntheuer, a turner, and his wife Christina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Michael Korntheuer and his wife Christiana are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Michael Korntheuer, a farmer, and his wife Christina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 94 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Michael Korntheuer came from the German village of Fürstenberg [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #3985-3984.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #209.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 369.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical Universiy, 2010): #4746.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4954-4955.
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