Konrad Lehning, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Margaretha, age 11; Johann, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab of 8 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8 along with Konrad's new wife Gertrude.
Widow Katharina Elisabeth Lehning from Schwab and her family are recorded on the 1857 census of Friedenberg.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Lehning came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Johann Konrad Lehning came from the German village of Angersbach [?] in the Riedesel region.
- 1857 Friedenberg Census.
- 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): 347.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sb35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 129.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2603.
Brent Mai