Johann Philipp Lauck, son of Johann Jacob Lauck & Maria Dorothea Mützeberger, was confirmed in Gelnhausen (northeast of Hanau) in 1746. He married there on 10 August 1752 to Anna Elisabeth Kalbfleisch, daughter of Johann Heinrich Kalbfleisch. Among their children baptized in Gelnhausen are: (1) Susanna Catharina, baptized 7 May 1753; (2) Maria Dorothea, baptized 1 February 1755; (3) Johann Philipp, baptized 10 December 1756; (4) Johann Jacob, baptized 27 July 1760; and (5) Sigismund (baptized 20 February 1764).
Philipp Lauck, a furrier, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Susanna, age 14; Philipp, age 9; Dorothea, age 7; Jakob, age 6; Johann, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert. Philipp Lauck was the Vorsteher (leader) of this particular group of immigrants.
Philipp Lauck died before arriving in the colony of Dönhof where his widow and 3 of the original children along with a newborn (Johann Heinrich) settled on 18 June 1767.
Widow Elisabeth Lauck and her children (Johann Philipp, age 19; Susanna Katharina, age 16; Jakob, age 10; and Johann Heinrich, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 79 along with a note recording that they moved to Beideck in 1768.
Philipp Lauck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd32.
Philipp Lauck and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Beideck in Household No. 116.
[Johann] Adam Lauck from Beideck and his son are recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 52.
Jakob Lauck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd67.
The death of Jakob Lauck in 1833 is recorded on the 1834 census of Beideck in Household No. 97.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Lauck came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1811 Nieder-Monjou Census (Household No. 52).
- 1834 Beideck Census (Households No. 97, 98, 116).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 259.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bd32, Bd67.
- Parish register of Gelnhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 363.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1858.
Glenn Carlson
Brent Mai