Widow Anna Faust and her children (Maria, age 20; Johann, age 18; Jakob, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dobrinka on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 94. A note on the 1767 census indicates that the Faust family relocated to the colony of Shcherbakovka in 1768.
The death of Jakob Faust from Shcherbakovka is recorded in Sarepta on 19 March 1822 at the age of 67.
Karl Faust and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db62.
The death of Karl Faust in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 96.
Martin Faust and his family from Shcherbakovka are recorded on the 1857 census of Morgentau.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that the widow Anna Faust came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Anna Margaretha Faust came from the German village of Roth in the Isenburg region.
- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 96).
- 1857 Morgentau Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 246.
- 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): Db62, Sv57.
- Parish register of Sarepta.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 339.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1759.
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Entry from the parish register of Sarepta recording the death of Jakob Faust on 19 March 1822.
Source: jauk (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum)