Johann Laubach, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Katharina, age 12; Anna [Maria], age 9; Elisabeth, age 6; Anna, age 2¼) 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 Schilling and are recorded there on the 1775 census in Household No. 63.
In 1796, Johannes Laubach and his family moved from Schilling to Norka.
Anna Maria Müller née Laubach and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr112.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Laubach came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Laubach family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Census of Schilling (No. 63).
- 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): 229-230.
- 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): Nr112, Mv2585.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1632.
Brent Mai