Johann Ludwig Finck [sic], a farmer from the area of Hessen-Darmstadt, & Anna Catharina Gobel, from the county of Büdingen, were married on 21 May 1766 in Pastor Peterssen's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Ludwig Fink, a farmer, and his wife Katharina Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that they are travelling with his aunt, Elisabeth [surname not recorded]. The 1767 census records that living with Ludwig & Katharina Elisabeth Fink is an Anna Elisabeth [surname not recorded] (age 67) as his mother-in-law.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Ludwig Fink came from the German district of Darmstadt.
- 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): Nr165.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #224.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 240.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4896.
Brent Mai