Sufner*
Adolph [sic] Sufner, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and is recorded there as Christoph [sic] Sufner on the 1767 census in Household No. 39 along with his new wife Barbara and her daughter Anna (age 9) [surname not recorded].
Barbara Sufner, widow of Christian [sic] Sufner, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt026.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adolph [sic] Sufner was a farmer from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Christoph [sic] Sufner was a craftsman (Handwerker) from the German village of Eberbach [?] in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sufner family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Wt026.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 303.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6451.
Brent Mai