Bernhard Sack, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johannes, age 7¼; Michael, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
His family evidently died. Bernhard settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 68 along with new wife Margaretha Vierschenk.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Bernhard Sack came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Bernhardt Sack came from the German village of Attaching in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sack family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 78.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 57.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #258.
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