Christoph Tubhorn [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and his children (Philipp, age 14; Margaretha, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.
Heinrich Dubhorn and his sons (Martin Philipp & Philipp Peter) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 25 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Heinrich Dubhorn and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 42.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Dubhorn came from the German region of Zweibrücken. The 1767 census records that Christoph Dubhorn came from the German village of Kusel in the Zweibrücken.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 25).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Household No. 42).
- 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): 145.
- 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): Sr25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 236.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #883.
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