Morbi
Alexander Morbius, a coppersmith, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
It appears that Alexander died and his widow Elisabeth appears to have remarried first to Friedrich Zanner (who was also on the ship with them) and then to Michael Zimmermann (who was also on the same ship).
The two surviving sons (Georg & Christoph) are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Households No. Sm19 & Sm48. These are believed to be the same boys who are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann as Georg & Christoph Zanner in Household No. 24.
The censuses of 1834, 1850, and 1857 record this surname as Morbi.
Jakob Morbi, son of Christoph Morbi, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Hölzel in Household No. 21.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Alexander Morbius came from the German region of Lothringen.
- 1834 Hölzel Census (Household No. 21).
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Household No. 46).
- 1850 Hölzel Census (Household No. 42).
- 1850 Seelmann Census (Households No. 19, 135, 156).
- 1857 Hölzel Census (Household No. 51).
- 1857 Seelmann Census (Household No. 172).
- 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): Sm19, Sm48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 154.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3037, #3042, #3052.
Brent Mai