Paul Nowak, a cobbler, his wife Justina, and children (Bonaventura, age 10¼; Marta, age 8; Philipp, age 6; Marianna, age 2¼) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Гданьская Надежда (Gdansk Hope) under the command of Skipper Johann Erdmann Geske.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 1 March 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 61.
In 1792, Johann Nowak moved from Kamenka to Pfeifer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Nowak is a shoemaker (Schuster) while the 1767 census records that he is a farmer. The Oranienbaum passenger list also records that Paul Nowak is from Marienburg in Poland while the 1767 census records that he is from Fisch.
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- 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): Km074, Pf39, Mv1106.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 231.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #318.
Brent Mai