Johann Strohbett [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Johann (age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Johann Strobel, his wife Margretha, and son Johann (age 10) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
His wife died and he remarried to Barbara, the widow of Hans Amen. Barbara also evidently died, and Johann Strohbett remarried to a woman named Margaretha. They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 5 September 1767. Johann & Margaretha, along with the orphaned Amen children, are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 66.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Strohbett came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Dormitz in the region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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