The parish register of the Evangelishe Kirche Stadkirche (City Lutheran Church) in Friedberg record that Henrich [sic] Laub from Niederohm [Nieder-Ohmen] and Maria Magdalena Schmidt from Mehrenberg [Merenberg] were married there on 15 April 1766.
Johann Heinrich Laub, his wife Marianna [sic], and children (Kaspar, age 16¼; Anna, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Johann Heinrich Laub is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1. A note on the 1767 census indicates that Johann Heinrich Laub was the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony. It is after him that the colony took its name.
In 1789, Johann Heinrich Laub moved from Laub to Dinkel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Laub was a wheelwright while the 1767 census records that he was a turner (Dreher).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Hienrich Laub came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Laub came from the German village of Niederhof in the Darmstadt region.
- 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): 292.
- 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): Dn03, Mv1498.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #313.
- Parish register of Evangelische Kirche Stadkirche (City Lutheran Church) in Friedberg (LDS Film #1269633).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 19.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2138.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1547.
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