Johann Adam Liebig [sic], son of Johann Sebastian & Anna Margaretha Liebig, was born in 1742 in Groß-Bieberau and confirmed there in 1756.
Johann Adam Lebich [sic] from Groß Bibra [Groß-Bieberau] & Eliesabetha Rebecca Zirkübel from Groß Bibra [Groß-Bieberau] married on 4 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Büdigen. [See Zirckgiebel Family.]
Johann Adam Liebich, a cobbler, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Святой Николай (St. Nicolaus) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
They immigrated to Russia and are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 10.
They moved to Stahl am Tarlyk. Adam Liebich received authorization to move to Sarepta on 26 April 1790.
They arrived in Sarepta on 10 May 1790 from Stahl am Tarlyk. The records in Sarepta record that the Liebichs had 2 children: (1) Johann Ludwig, born 13 September 1773 in Beideck; and (2) Johann Heinrich, born 15 December 1776 in Beideck.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Adam Liebich came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 10).
- 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): 180.
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Groß-Bieberau [Online].
- Mai, Brent Alan & Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767): Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #478.
- Parish records in Sarepta.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1183.
Research from Sarepta provided by Karl Becker.
Brent Mai
Karl Becker