Johann Jakob Pluket and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 4.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Jakob Pluket was a joiner while the 1767 census records that he is a craftsman (Handwerker). Both documents record that Johann Jakob Plucket came from the German district of Isenburg.
The Norka Website reports that the German origin of this family has been confirmed to the the village of Schlierbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 1811Nr224).
- 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): Nr223.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 228.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5019.
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