Dietrich Arends [sic], a single tanner, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
Dietrich Arndt [sic], a tanner (Gerber), his wife Anna Maria, and son Johann Ferdinand (age 2-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 146. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
Friedrich [sic] Arnst and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr043.
The death of Dietrich Arnst in 1809 is recorded on the 1811 Warenburg census in Household No. 43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Dietrich Arends [sic] came from the German region of Westfalen. The 1767 census records that Dietrich Arndt [sic] came from the German village of Lückstedt in the Brandenburg region.
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Household No. 43).
- 1834 Warenburg Census (Households No. 12, 51, 97, 118).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 172.
- 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): Wr043.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 343.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1121.
Brent Mai