Philipp Ludwig, a miller (Müller), and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 5 March 1767 where Philipp is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 71 along with [new] wife Helena.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Ludwig came from the German region of Nürnberg. The 1767 census records that Philipp Ludwig came from the German village of Spalt in the region of Nürnberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ludwig family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 326.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #102.
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