Widow Anna Springer, and her children (Peter, age 18; Maria, ge 16; Johann, age 15; Heinrich, age 12; Margaretha, age 8; Wilhelm, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the ship named Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub and son Heinrich is recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss as being from the colony of Straub.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Springer and her family came from the German region of Trier.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Ps60.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2075.
Brent Mai