Siebert (Köhler-1)
Adam Siebert, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Christina, age 7; Johann Martin, age 1-month) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Adam Siebert and his daughter Anna Christina (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 75 along with his new wife Klara Eberle. They had settled in Köhler on 21 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Adam Siebert came from the German village of Alt Simmern in the region of Baden.
- 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): Kl39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 378.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4175.
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