Johann Joachim Binkler [sic], a single blacksmith (Schmied), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Johann Pickener, his [new] wife Christina Elisabeth [widow of Johann Heinrich Fisser], daughter (Johanna Elisabeth, age ½), and [step-]daughter Johanna Dorothea [Fisser] (age 9½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. [See Fisser Family.]
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Joachim Binkler [sic] came from the German region of Prussia.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Pickener family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 661.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5252 (p.337).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2495-2498.
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