Johann [Gottlieb] Strauch, a farmer, his wife Charlotta [Engelmann], and children (Nikolaus, age 6; Maria, age 5; Karl, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Gottlieb Strauch, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Charlotta Engelmann, and daughter Maria (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 145. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 23 July 1767.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records in Household No. 114:
Johann Gottlieb Strauch (age 41), a weaver of colorful cotton (Zitzglänzer) and tailor (Schneider)
His wife: Charlotta Eleon. Engelmann (age 41; born in Wahren-Mecklenburg)
Daughters: Maria Elisabeth (age 15; born in Amsterdam); Anna Dorothea (age 5)
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Johann Gottlieb Strauch came from the German village of Calau near Dresden in Sachsen (Saxony) and that Charlotta Engelmann came from the German village of Waren in the Mecklenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Strauch family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 114).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 307.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4494.
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