Gottfried Sendorf, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Johann (age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Gottfried Seedorff [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 27 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42.
Andreas Sendorf, his family, and his widowed mother Maria (age 68) are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn01. Heinrich Sendorf, presumed brother of Andreas, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn44.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Sendorf came from the German region of Mecklenburg. The 1767 census records that Gottfried Sendorf came from the German village of Schönberg in the region of Mecklenburg.
- 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): 123-124.
- 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): Dn01, Dn44.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 308.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #708.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1461.
Brent Mai