Otto (Boisroux)

An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:

David Otto, a cobbler (Schuhmacher) from Oranienbaum, owner of a house laden with debt in the amount of 17 Thlr. 5 Gr. The sale amounted to 35 Thlr. He left with his wife and five children.

David Otto, a cobbler, his wife Eleonora, and children (Gottlieb, age 22; Johanna, age 20; Dorothea, age 18; Katharina, age 12; Christian, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck. They were traveling with servant Friedrich [Otto] (age 20).

Johann David Otte, his wife Eleonora, and children (Catharina, age 12; Christ. Gotthilf, age 6; Fried. Christ., born in route; Joh. Sophia, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. Son Johann Gottlieb Otto is recorded later on the list. Friederich Otto along with Dorothea and Henrietta are also recorded later on the list.

Widower David Otto and his children (Katharina, age 13; Christian, age 8) settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.

Son Gottlieb Otto settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 64 along with his new wife Johanna Eleonora and her mother and brother (Johanna & Johann Georg Hoppe). [Heinrich Reichert on the Forum of wolgadeutsche.net records that Christian Gottlieb Adam Otto was born 8 November 1744 and that his wife Eleonora Sophia Hoppe was born 30 July 1752.]

In 1785, Gottlieb Otto and his family moved from Boisroux to Katharinenstadt.

The death in 1849 of Karl Otto is recorded on the 1850 census of Rosental in Household No. 19 along with a note that his family had arrived from Kaneau in Rosental in 1847.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that David Otto came from the region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he came from the region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that son Christian Gottlieb Otto came from the German village of Oranienbaum.