Michael Sdrawinski [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann[es], age 10½; Christina, age 7) arrived from Reval at the port of Oranienbaum on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Husaren on 17 February 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
Johannes Strowinski and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Husaren in Household No. Hn27.
The death of Johannes Strowinski in 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 69 along with a note that his son Heinrich had relocated to the colony of Preuss.
Heinrich Strowinski from Husaren and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Preuss in Household No. 47.
In 1795, Kaspar Strawinski [sic], presumed to be the son of Johannes Strowinski, moved from Husaren to Franzosen.
Kaspar Strowinski and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz40.
Kaspar Strowinski from Franzosen and his son are recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 47 along with a note that they had arrived in Hölzel from Franzosen in 1811.
The death of Kaspar Strowinski in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hölzel in Household No. 15.
The 1767 census records that Michael Sdrawinski [sic] came from the city of Danzig in Prussia.
- 1811 Hölzel Census (Household No. 47).
- 1834 Hölzel Census (Household No. 15).
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 69).
- 1834 Preuss Census (Household No. 47).
- 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): Hn27, Fz40, Mv1037.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 169.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #327.
Brent Mai