Konrad Neff, a farmer, and his wife Katharina 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 Conrad Neeff, his wife Anna Catharina, and son Johannes (age 4-weeks) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
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. 81.
In 1786, Konrad Neff moved from Nieder-Monjou to the Caucasus.
In 1798, Kaspar Neff moved from Rosenheim to Nieder-Monjou.
Kaspar Neff is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 62 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Susannental [year not recorded].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Neff came from the German region of Hessen while the 1767 census records that he came from the Mainz region.
- 1811 Nieder-Monjou Census (Household No. 62).
- 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): Nm63, Mv1906, Mv2483.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 202.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4705.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2870-2872.
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