Michael Waldheuser, a joiner (Tischler), his wife Kunigunda, son Philipp (age 1¼), and [step-]daughter Kunigunda (age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Kunigunda Seifert (age 16) is recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 38 along with her stepfather Michael Waldheuser.
Neither the Oranienbaum passenger list nor the 1767 census record from where Kunigunda Seifert came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Seifert 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): 57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 298.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #100.
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