Jakob Wormsbecher, a farmer, his wife Maria, and sons (Bernhard, age 14; Philipp, age 12; Herrmann, age 10; Jakob, age 8; Christoph, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Widow Maria Elisabeth Wormsbecher whose husband was a butcher (Fleischer) and her sons (Bernhard, age 16; Philipp, age 13; Herrmann, age 11; Jakob, age 9; Christoph, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 168. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 23 July 1767.
The 1798 census of Paulskaya records that Philipp Wormsbecher from Katharinenstadt is living in Household No. Pl37.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Wormsbecher was a farmer while the 1767 census records that the deceased husband of Maria Elisabeth Wormsbecher was a butcher (Fleischer).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Wormsbecher came from the German region of Magdeburg. The 1767 census records that Jakob Wormsbecher came from the German village of Friedenwald in the Marburg region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Ka025, Ka047, Ka123, Pl37.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 311.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4830.
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