Konrad Seib, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 7; Philipp, age 4; Elisabeth, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
In 1791, widow Magdalena Seib and her family moved from Kukkus to Stahl am Tarlyk.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Seib was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he is a hosier (Strumpfwirker).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Seib came from the German region of Braunfels. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Ettringen near Braunfels.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 456.
- 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): Kk17, St32, Mv1443.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 465.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3560.
Brent Mai