Karl Timplink [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Karl Templing and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling where they are recorded on the supplement to the 1775 census in Household No. 6. Notes accompanying the 1775 census record that Templing is an apprentice merchant and bookkeeper, but that he is considered insane. He survives because his wife is a diligent worker.
Karl Tromple [sic], a distiller, and his wife Rosina are recorded on the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 43.
In 1796, widow Sophia Templing and her son Johann Karl moved from Schilling to Kratzke. [Johann Karl Templing was born 24 August 1772.]
Widower Sophia Trampel [sic] is recorded on the 1798 Movement Table of Schilling along with a note that she married an unnamed Hannemann in Yagodnaya Polyana.
Karl Templing from Schilling and his wife Anna Dorothea Knaus are recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr34.
Georg Peter Templing, presumed son of Karl Templing, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Household No. 40.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Timplink [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- 1775 Schilling Census Appendix (No.6).
- 1775 Schilling Census (No. 43).
- 1834 Kratzke Census (Household No. 40).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 252.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kr34, Yp55, Mv2586, Mv2559.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1806.
Brent Mai
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