Max [sic] Ulrich, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and their son Johann (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Fortuna under the command of Skipper Peter Stahl. Arriving with them is Johann Ulrich, a single farmer.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.
In 1798, Johann Adam Ulrich moved from Göbel to Straub.
Adam Ulrich, the son-in-law of August Gelhorn, is recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 47 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both Max Ulrich & Johann Ulrich came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Mark [sic] Ulrich came from the German village of Fischbach in the Mainz region.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 47).
- 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): Gb10, Sr47, Mv0711.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 45.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2269, #2270.
Brent Mai