Lechner (Paulskaya)
Konrad [Wolfgang] Lechner, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Johann [sic] Wolfgang Lerchner [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 38 along with a note that he relocated to the Volga German colony of Paulskaya in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Lechner was a farmer from the German region of Bayreuth while the 1767 census records that he was a merchant (Kaufmann) from the German village of Bild [?].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 330.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4634.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5855.
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