Heinrich Lenz, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Anna Katharina Lenz settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 26 June 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46 along with a note that her husband had died 8 September 1767.
The 1767 census records that Anna Katharina Lenz came from the German village of Kessenhausen in the Trier region.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Lenz family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 148.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 276.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #911.
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