The baptisms of the following children of Nikolaus Vögler and his wife Anna Nagelschmidt from Radmühl are recorded in the parish registers of the nearby village of Unterreichenbach: (1) Anna Margaretha, baptized 21 September 1757; (2) Eva Catharina, baptized 8 December 1759; and (3) Johann Georg, born 27 September 1764. The death of an unnamed son (age 1½) on 23 May 1763 is also recorded there.
Nikolaus Vogler, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna,and children (Anna, age 10; Eva, age 7; Johann, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg along with his in-laws, Heinrich & Elisabeth Nagelschmidt. [See Nagelschmidt Family.]
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 130 along with his mother-in-law, Elisabeth Margaretha (age 66) and orphan Anna Margaretha Schneider (age 16), daughter of the deceased Peter Schneider. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Vögler and Schneider families.
Nikolaus Vögler, his wife Anna Margaretha, and sons (Johannes, age 7; Johann Heinrich, age 4; Johann Adam, age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 31 along with his daughter Anna Margaretha (age 19), son-in-law Johann Heinrich Horst, granddaughter Anna Margaretha (age 1), and stepson Friedrich Horst (age 20).
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 31).
- 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): Nr031, Nr167.
- Parish register of Unterreichenbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 264.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3198.
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