Georg Popp, a farmer, his wife Eva, and daughters (Maria, age 17; Margaretha, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Georg Poppe [sic] and his daughters (Margreth [sic], age 18; and Maria [age not recorded]) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Maria died en route.
Georg remarried to Katharina, widow of Konrad Dumrauf, with whom he had been traveling from St. Petersburg to Saratov.
The combined Popp/Dumrauf families settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Popp is from the German region of Würzberg.
The 1767 census records that Georg Popp came from the German village of Rossdorf in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Popp family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 111.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6157.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7637, 7645-7647.
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