Seiftenberg*
Andreas Seiftenberg, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. Andreas died after arriving in Russia, and his widow Elisabeth remarried to Heinrich Wolter.
Andreas Saftenberg, his wife Anna, and son Daniel (age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 17 August 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 50 along with son Daniel Seiftenberg.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Seiftenberg family came from the German region of Zerbst.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 343.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1306.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0609-0611.
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