Wilhelm Lind, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, children (Johann, age 15¼; Johann Peter, age 9; Anna Katharina, age 5¼; Ursula, age 3; Andreas, age ¼), and his mother-in-law Christina [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Wilhelm died after they arrived in Russia. His widow, Anna Elisabeth, remarried to Johannes Strauch. [See Strauch Family.]
The combined Strauch / Lind family settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767. Johannes Strauch, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and Lind stepchildren (Johannes, age 16; Johann Peter, age 11; Anna Katharina, age 8; Anna Ursula, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 61.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Lind came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 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): 260.
- 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): Dh030, Dh056.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 357.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1865.
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