There are two Lembach families that settled in the Volga German colony of Luzern. Both are recorded on the 1767 census in a list of Beauregard recruits. Further research is needed to determine their relationship, if any.
(1) Paulus Limbach, a farmer, his wife Regina, and daughter Margaretha (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Paul Limbach, his wife Margretha [sic], and newborn daughter Sophia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Sophia died in route.
Paul Lembach (age 34), a barrel maker (Fassbinder), and his wife Regina are recorded at No. 40 on the Beauregard List.
Paul Lembach and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz41.
(2) Anton Limbach, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Anton Lembach [sic] and his wife Margretha [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Margretha died in route.
Anton Lembach (age 27), a barrel maker (Fassbinder), and his [new] wife Margaretha are recorded at No. 41 on the Beauregard List.
Anton Lembach (age 56) and his wife Elisabeth Reichmesser are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz35 along with a note that they are working in Mariental.
There are no known surviving male lines of the Anton Lembach family among the Volga German colonies.
The widow and daughter of Georg Lembach are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om41. Further research is needed to confirm that the Georg Lembach family in Ober-Monjou is related to the one in Luzern.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both Paulus Limbach and Anton Limbach came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 Beauregard List records that both of these Lembach families came from the German region of Lohr.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Lz35, Lz41, Om41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 357.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4585, #4586.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5836-5840.
Brent Mai