Georg Möbus, his wife Katharina, and children (Katharina, age 4; Albert, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johan Georg Möbus, his wife Anna Catharina, and children (Cathar. Margaretha, age 6; Albertus, age 3; Joh. Caspar, age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Joh. Caspar died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.
In 1786, widower Georg Mebus and his family moved from Nieder-Monjou to Rosenheim.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Möbus was a miller while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that [Johann] Georg Möbus came from the German region of Riedesel.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Rm33, Mv1898.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 190.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4701.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2851-2854.
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