Johann Usner [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Anna (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Anna Cathar. Usner [sic] and her daughter Anna Dorothea (age 5) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anna Katharina Usinger, widow of an unnamed farmer, and her daughter Anna Dorothea (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 61 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Lauwe in 1768. They had settled in Anton on 1 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Usner [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Anna Katharina Usinger came from the German village of Schotten in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Usinger family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 814.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 69.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6516.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7885-7886.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Usner [sic] and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.