Adam Walter, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann[es], age 22; [Johann] Heinrich, age 18; Konrad, age 14; Adam, age 6; Elisabeth, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Johannes Walter (age 22), his wife Elisabeth (age 40), and his siblings (Konrad, age 14; Adam, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kolb in Household No. 14 along with 3 additional children, assumed to be Elisabeth's from a previous marriage [surname not recorded]: Eva Maria, age 17; Johann Jost, age 15; Anna Maria, age 12.
Sibling Johann Heinrich Walter recorded on the 1767 census of Kolb in Household No. 26 along with a note that he relocated to Norka in 1768.
Heinrich Walter and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 119. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr050.
The 1798 census records that Adam and Konrad Walter (from Kolb) were living in Yagodnaya Polyana (Households No. Yp51 & Yp83, respectively).
The 1767 census records that this Walter family came from the German village of Dürkheim in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 119).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 162.
- 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): Nr050, Ko36, Yp51, Yp83.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 389, 392.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1029.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0432, #0433.
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