Siebert (Hussenbach)
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Siebert (Hussenbach)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Johann [Adam] Siebert, farmer, and his family arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 May 1766 on a ship under the command of Skipper Jacob Janson.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. The 1798 census of Hussenbach records Adam's widow and children in Household Hs025.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Siebert came from Poland.
Sources:
- 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): Hs025, Hs039.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #55.
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Sue Nakaji