Johann Adam Resner, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Konrad, age 22; Maria Elisabeth, age 20; Elisabeth, age 16; Johann, age 12; Katharina, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
The parents and several children died after arrival in Russia. The surviving children settled in the Volga German colony of Hildmann on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
The 1767 census records that the Resner family came from the German village of Gelnhausen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Resner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 108.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2048.
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