Gottfried Spenger [sic] & Eva Maria Spenger [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Gottfried Speyer and Eva Maria Speyer are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottfried Speier (age 14) and his sister Eva (age 13) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 16 along with their sister Sophia who is married to Johann Schaumberg. The 1767 census also records that they relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
Gottfried Speier from Wittmann is recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om25.
The 1767 census does not record from where this Speier family came.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 839.
- 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): Om25.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6763, #6764 [not recorded on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 327.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4164-4165.
Brent Mai