Johann Conrad Werth, son of Johann Heinrich Werth, was baptized in Spielberg on 24 December 1747. His sister, Eva Elisabeth, had been baptized there on 7 April 1745.
Konrad Werth (age 19¾), a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov along with his sister Eva Elisabeth and her husband Konrad Preisendorf.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 18 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24 along with his sister and brother-in-law Konrad Priesendorf.
Konrad Werth, his wife Katharina [Müller], and daughter Eva Elisabeth (age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 83 along with his father-in-law Johann Georg Müller.
Konrad Werth and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr087.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Werth came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 83).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 535.
- 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): Nr087.
- Parish register of Spielberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 235.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4145 (p. 272).
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