Two Senner families arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Senner, a dyer, and his wife Margaretha arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johannes Senner and his wife Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Senner, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 74. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 15 July 1767.
(2) Widow Anna Senner (age 31) and her son Johann (age 2¼) arrived in Oranienbaum and are recorded with her brother-in-law Philipp Filsecker.
Anna and her son have not been located on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersbug to Saratov in 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Senner came from the German region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 727, 728.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 76.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5811, #5821.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6528-6529.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of widow Anna Senner and her son Johann.
Source: Brent Mai.