Mattias Lauterbach, a farmer, his wife Ludwiga, and son Franziscus (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Mathias Laiderbach [sic] and his wife Hedewig are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.
In 1770, widow Hedwiga Lauterbach married Sebastian Maier and moved from Boisroux to Bettinger.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mattias Lauterbach came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Matthias Lauterbach came from the German village of Siegburg in the region of Kurpfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Lauterbach family among the Volga German colonies.
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Brent Mai