Urbach (Urbach)
Johann Jakob Urbach and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius with skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen at the helm.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 13 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 as the colony's mayor (Vorsteher). The colony was named after him.
In 1786, Christian Urbach and his family moved from Urbach to Stahl am Karaman.
The 1767 census records that the Urbach family came from the German village of Mühlhausen.
- 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): Sk40, Mv2899.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 269.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3295.
Brent Mai