Andreas Paul, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Andreas Paul, his wife Anna Catharina, and daughter Christiana [born en route] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that newborn Christiana also died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.
In 1786, Johann Paul and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen. By 1798, Johannes Paul from Kaneau was living in the colony of Rosenheim, and is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Rm18.
Lorenz Paul and his family are recorded on an 1865 list of colonists resettled to Lilienfeld along with a note that they had arrived in Lilienfeld from Kaneau on 7 March 1859.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Paul came from the German region of Zerbst. The 1767 census records that Andreas Paul came from the German village of Belzig in the Zerbst region.
- 1865 Lilienfeld List.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 189.
- 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): Kn15, Kn19, Rm18, Mv1145.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 252.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1254.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0523-0525.
Brent Mai