Valentin Groh, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Philipp, age 23; Balthasar, age 21; Konrad, age 17½) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov. Both parents died after arriving in Russia.
Philipp Groh, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 112.
The other two surviving sons (Balthasar, age 22; Konrad, age 19) are recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 79 along with Balthasar's wife Anna Maria (age 17).
Balthasar Groh and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 154.
In 1801 Johann Philipp Groh and his family relocated from Grimm to Nieder-Monjou.
Johann Philipp Groh from Grimm and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 43 along with a note that he had arrived in Nieder-Monjou from Grimm in 1801.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Groh family came from the German region of Friedberg.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 154).
- 1811 Nieder-Monjou Census (Household No. 43).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 327.
- 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): Gm070, Ks035, Ks051, Ks097.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 84, 445.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2426.
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