An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:
Gottlieb Mattheus/Matheus (both spellings on p.88), with wife (née Pussker from Rehsen) and 2 children (one son & one daughter, the oldest being 3-years-old), from Rehsen, having moved there from Saxony. His debt-ridden house was bought by Christian Schulze. They left their house, sold by pulbic auction as notified in the weekly paper. Mattheus/Matheus is one of the two husbands cited who has abandoned his wife and two children. He married his wife in 1762 and took over his mother-in-law's house, but since that time, he had lived dissolutely.
Gottlieb Matthias, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Maria Sophia, age 5; Gottlieb, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Gottlieb Mathias, his wife Maria Catarina, and children (Maria Sophia, age 5; Gottlieb, age 2½; Johann Christian, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists who were transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 with a note that father Gottlieb died en route.
Widow Maria Katharina remarried to Johann Heinrich Krämer. The combined Krämer / Matthias families are recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 53. They had settled in Urbach on 3 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottlieb Matthias came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 659.
- 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): Ur21.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #167-171.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1120.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 282.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5228 (p.336).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2038-2042.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 88.
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