Balthasar Strauss, a farmer, and his wife Walpurga arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Baltasar Straus and his wife Walburg are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Walburg died en route.
Balthasar Strauss is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 69.
Balthasar Strauss and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or62.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Balthasar Strauss came from the German region of Ansbach while the 1767 census records that he came from the village of Ostheim.
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- 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): Or62.
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Brent Mai