Konrad [Wolfgang] Lechner, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
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.
Henrietta née Mummert (widow of [Wolfgang] Lechner) (age 27) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 102 as the 2nd wife of Helfried Bott. She is recorded there along with daughter Maria Elisabeth Lechner (age 6) who was born in the colony of Reinhard.
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 [?]. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Henrietta née Mummert came from Amsterdam.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Lechner family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 102).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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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