Johann Andreas Ludewig [sic] & Catharina Nürnberger were married on 11 April 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck. [See Nürnberger Family.]
Johann Andreas Ludwig, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Andreas Ludwig (age 26), a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 6. They had arrived in Ober-Monjou on 5 March 1767.
In 1792, Joseph Ludwig moved from Ober-Monjou to Wittmann.
Joseph Ludwig is recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm39.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Andreas Ludwig came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Andreas Ludwig came from the German village of Auma in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- 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): 58.
- 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): Om29, Wm39, Mv2096.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #130.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 291.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #113.
Brent Mai