Johann[es] Wunderlich, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 15; Anna, age 9; Johann, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johann Wunderlich, his wife Barbara, and children (Maria, age 16; Anna Maria, age 9; Johan Adam, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Barbara died en route.
They are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits that is attached to the 1767 census in Household No. 127.
In 1786, Adam Wunderlich moved from Nieder-Monjou to the Caucasus.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Wunderlich came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johannes Wunderlich came from the German village of Haigerseelbach [?] in the Nassau region.
[Daughter Anna Maria Wunderlich (age 19) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 70 as the wife of Anton Krämer. There she is recorded as having been born in the German village of Grosshausen in the Hanau region.]
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 70).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 506.
- 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): Mv1901.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 127.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3977.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6208-6212.
Brent Mai