Widow Anna Maria Eremer [sic] and her children (Kunigunda, age 20; Sebastian, age 15; Barbara, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Sebastian Rahnert (age 15) is recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 57 along with his sister Maria Kunigunda and her [new] husband Franz Schirmer. They had arrived in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767. [See Schirmer Family.]
The 1798 census of Köhler records Sebastian Rahnert from Pfeifer in Household No. Kl09 along with his wife [Anna] Rosina Friebel, widow of Gottfried Köhler [not Friedrich Herber], and her son Gustav Köhler.
Kunigunda Schirmer née Rahnert and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf08.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that widow Anna Maria Eremer [sic] came from the German region of Franken (Franconia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rahnert 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): 640.
- 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): Kl09, Pf08.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 391.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5136.
Brent Mai