Christian Petersen, a single hosier (Strumpfwirker), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57 along with his new wife Katharina and stepdaughter, Maria Elisabeth (surname not recorded).
Maria Dorothea Peterson and her sister Maria Christina Peterson are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr122.
It is believed that Johann Karl Petersen recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn11 and Joseph Petersen recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn37 are also descendants of this Christian Petersen.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Christoph [sic] Petersen came from the German village of Kleinstadt in the Holstein region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 118.
- 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): Dn11, Dn37, Wr122.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 330.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #654.
Brent Mai
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