Johann Sibelius, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Maria (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johannes Sibelius, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Elisabeth (age 13) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Elisabeth died en route.
Johann Sibelius, a farmer, his [new] wife Christina, daughter Maria (age 15), and stepson Gottlieb Specht (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 16. They had settled in Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Sibelius came from the German region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 501.
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