There are two Seibert families that settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They had arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Christoph Seibert, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Barbara, age 17¼; Georg, age 15¼; Jakob, age 11; Katharina, age 7; Bertil, age ½) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 59 are Christoph (age 50), his wife Anna Maria (age 43), and his children by his first wife (Georg, age 16; Johann Jakob, age 12; Margaretha, age 9).
(2) Martin Seibert, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Hans, age 18; Anna, age 16¼; Barbara, age 12; Kaspar, age 7, and Nikolaus, age 1½) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 47 are Martin (age 44), a tailor (Schneider), his new wife Maria Elisabeth, and his children by his first wife (Johann Georg, age 18; Barbara, age 14; Kaspar, age 12; Nikolaus, age 3). In 1793, Nikolaus Seibert moved from Warenburg to Dinkel.
The 1767 census of Warenburg records that both of these Seibert families came from the German village of Wintersheim in the Franconia region.
An Andreas Seifert [sic] (age 26) is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub with a note that he is working in Dinkel. The death of this Andreas Seibert [sic] in 1829 is recorded on the 1834 census of Laub in Household No. 103. He apparently had no male descendant lines.
- 1834 Dinkel Census (Households No. 35, 61).
- 1834 Laub Census (Household No. 103).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 175-176.
- 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): Dn32, Lb63, Wr010, Wr063, Wr080, Wr099, Mv2992.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 328, 330.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1151, #1152.
Brent Mai