Johannes Klug and his family immigrated to Russia from the German village of Salmünster.
Johann[es] Klug, a weaver, his wife Anna Maria, and son Philipp (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Johannes Klug, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and son Wilhelm (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 44. They had settled there on 21 August 1767.
In 1818, Joseph Klug and his family relocated from Köhler to Seelmann.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Klug came from the German region of Fulda.
- 1834 Köhler Census (Households No. 14, 135, 151, 152).
- 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): 492.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kl13, Kl25.
- Müller-Marschhausen, Ernst. “Russland-Auswanderer aus dem Bergwinkel um 1766 und die Spurensuche nach ihrer Rückkehr im 20. Jahrhundert.” [Online]
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 370.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3854.
Brent Mai