Johannes Lotz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Elisabeth, age 6; Melchior, age 3) 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.
Johannes Lotz, his wife Anna Barbara, and children (Elisabet, age 6; Melchior, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna Barbara and son Melchior died en route.
Johannes Lotz, a farmer, his new wife Anna (age 18), and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 11. They had settled in Nieder-Monjou on 7 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Lotz came from the German region of Hanau.
The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Hannover.
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