Johann Christian Ziegler, a dyer, his wife Margaretha Elisabeth (and children (Johann Isaak, age 13; Anna Christina, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
His widow and children are recorded on the 1767 census of Schäfer in Household No. 49 along with his widow's new husband Klaus Friedrich Hildebrant.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Christian Ziegler came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Margaretha Elisabetha Ziegler came from the German village of Zella in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known suriving male lines of this Ziegler family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 419.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 102.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3262.
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